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  1. Posted

    I have the same issues as CP. I find that Mozilla Firefox (one of the safest browsers around as well as one of the most stable and unhackable) tends to merger the picture and the options toolbar at the top of the page. It is likely that the tabbed browsing compresses the page to create this effect (I won't turn tabbed off though, it is far to useful a feature).

     

    The site is totally messed up for me, when I use FF. The whole style seems to not be compatible. Probably some incompatible html code in the style. So I end up using IE 6. The forum looks and works the best in IE 6. As masterq states.

  2. Posted

    Yeah, it sorta goes along with the cocktail party idea. Many cocktail parties are parties with co-workers. I have actually had business meatings at bars. It just seems to be the most relaxed atmosphere for some kinds of business and work conversations. It is also the place where you may find your boss drunk. Which has happened to me a few times. Just don't ever go to a cocktail party with your boss. When you know he drinks and comes from Britain. That is if you are both in the states. Chances are you will get stuck riding back to work with a guy who not only cannot drive straight. But cannot remember what side of the road to drive.

  3. Posted · Edited by Data

    Bittersweet. Going to the Con, (even if we did get financially scalped there) the attention TVLand and others are giving Trek and looking forward to the release of the updated OS episodes is all sweet but not having any new Trek aired on TV or flashing on the bigscreen during this special time is bitter.

     

    Though I know it's delay is for the best, I was also really hoping the shuttle would launch today.

     

    EDIT: Poll answers:

     

    Yes

    Maybe, because of fan divisions.

    No. It just needs an infusion of new talent creating it?

    No. Unless the next movie bombs.

    Hopefully, yes.

     

    HAPPY ANNIVERSARY EVERYONE!

     

    It is just the 70's all over again. I think the Trek episodes that are out there now speak for themselves. I believe Trek did best in syndication, like the TOS reruns in early 70s and TNG when it was released in the 80's. Trek will live again. Trust me. It just needs an overhaul.

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    I thought it was rather silly. The only person who was really funny was Jason Alexander. The rest seemed to be just put on. I did enjoy the little skit with Leonard Nimoy in the beginning. I felt there were too many jokes about George Takei being gay. For some reason it did not fit in a roast for William Shatner. It drew too much attention to Takei. Who cares that Takei is gay? It does not change how I feel about him as an actor.

     

    Note: I always felt that George did a great job in his role as Sulu.

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    lol

     

    That is a really tough question. I don't think anybody should make that kind of decision. I would go by the rules of the old passenger liners. Try to save the women and children. Because children are our future. Nobody is that important to be judged more worthy of life than another. :tribble:

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    A day late. But it is better late than never. I posted this on several forums yesterday. The document that shows why the colonies chose to start their own country. I wonder what the men, who signed this document, would think of how their infant country turned out.

     

    The Declaration of Independence of the Thirteen Colonies

     

    The Declaration of Independence of the Thirteen Colonies

    In CONGRESS, July 4, 1776

     

    The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen United States of America,

     

    When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

     

    We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. --That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. —Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain [George III] is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

     

    He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.

     

    He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.

     

    He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.

     

    He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.

     

    He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.

     

    He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.

     

    He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.

     

    He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.

     

    He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.

     

    He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance.

     

    He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the consent of our legislatures.

     

    He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.

     

    He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:

     

    For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:

     

    For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:

     

    For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:

     

    For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:

     

    For depriving us, in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:

     

    For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:

     

    For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:

     

    For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:

     

    For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.

     

    He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.

     

    He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.

     

    He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty and perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.

     

    He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.

     

    He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.

     

    In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

     

    Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.

     

    We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by the Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.

     

    The signers of the Declaration represented the new states as follows:

     

    New Hampshire

    Josiah Bartlett, William Whipple, Matthew Thornton

     

    Massachusetts

    John Hancock, Samuel Adams, John Adams, Robert Treat Paine, Elbridge Gerry

     

    Rhode Island

    Stephen Hopkins, William Ellery

     

    Connecticut

    Roger Sherman, Samuel Huntington, William Williams, Oliver Wolcott

     

    New York

    William Floyd, Philip Livingston, Francis Lewis, Lewis Morris

     

    New Jersey

    Richard Stockton, John Witherspoon, Francis Hopkinson, John Hart, Abraham Clark

     

    Pennsylvania

    Robert Morris, Benjamin Rush, Benjamin Franklin, John Morton, George Clymer, James Smith, George Taylor, James Wilson, George Ross

     

    Delaware

    Caesar Rodney, George Read, Thomas McKean

     

    Maryland

    Samuel Chase, William Paca, Thomas Stone, Charles Carroll of Carrollton

     

    Virginia

    George Wythe, Richard Henry Lee, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Harrison, Thomas Nelson, Jr., Francis Lightfoot Lee, Carter Braxton

     

    North Carolina

    William Hooper, Joseph Hewes, John Penn

     

    South Carolina

    Edward Rutledge, Thomas Heyward, Jr., Thomas Lynch, Jr., Arthur Middleton

     

    Georgia

    Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, George Walton

  24. Posted

    Well, I pretty much keep mine working myself. By the way, DirecTV is great. But DirecWAY internet service is very slow. I stuck with Comcast for internet. But use DirecTV for TV. I just learned to fix my own net problems. They give you all the diognostic stuff to do it too. Since I repair my own stuff, I get a discount.