The guy's brain is obviously screwd. Or on drugs or something more sinister. Otherwise I think it was funny. -- Young Basic programmers never die... they just GOSUB and never RETURN.

It's not even the second moon, it's the THIRD! Doesn't NASA have telescopes the can see that thing from? Perhaps it's a Recon team scouting ahead of the main invasion force, and the authorities are hiding it not to cause panic... -- Young Basic programmers never die... they just GOSUB and never RETURN.

Just wanted to comment on one thing Yes, it is no secret that Palestine is holy land to the jews. It is no secret that it is holy land for the Christians. It is also no secret that it is holy land to Muslims. What concerns me (I am a palestinian, and I am speaking for myself) in the Jew-Palestinian conflict is not the 'holiness' thing. We both come even with it, as Muslims and Jews, so it can be taken out of the equation. What concerns me is that we have been forced out of our land. Put yourself in my place. If, for example, Russia manages to occupy the USA, and you are an American. The push all americans and squeeze them in only a couple of states and settle in the remaining huge area. Would you ever give up your claim of right in the lands they settled? even after 50 years? even after a 100 years? I am a university student. This semester, out of 4 study months, we managed to attend 5-6 weeks only. The semester before 2 monthes. All in the name of Israeli security. My university is 10 minutes from Ramallah, where I live, and it lies 'inside' the west bank, people going to and from it cross a road that leads to Ramallah and no other way. There is a (what can I call it.... 'Security' gate? ) midway between Ramallah and the Uni, and recently another at the entrance of the road to the Uni gates. Who are they protecting and how? Sure, they can say that it is our doing that caused this. I can say their doing is what caused this, and we can play the 'you did it' game for hours. I don't agree with suicide bombings, and consider them against our cause and belief. I don't think that the Israeli response is the going to change anything. At least not for the better. The only solution to this situation is a fair one. And until such a solution arrives, you can safely bet it will be worse. -- Young Basic programmers never die... they just GOSUB and never RETURN.

Ok... uhh... I don't know if this belongs here or somewhere else, but I am quite freaked out now that I can't think of the appropriate place for it... Here's my problem: Internet Explorer keeps jumping between windows... I know it jumps out of goodwill to inform me that the webpage in the window is updated -(here it happens again)- but for someone like me who runs more than 4 webpages at a time and keeps switchin' and hitchin' and stuff this can be freakingly freakin'... Some webpages seem to 'update' frequently before fully loading and it makes IE really stupidly stubborn... Imagine your pointer sliding gracefully and sweeping for a click just to have the window changed and your pointer finds itself in another dimension... How can I disable this 'helpful' feature ? help ? -- Young Basic programmers never die... they just GOSUB and never RETURN.

I have great faith in fools - my friends call it self-confidence. - Edgar Allen Poe Try www.coolsig.com ... I've known it for more than 5 years and each time I visit it manages to make me laugh... hasn't been updated in a while though... -- Young Basic programmers never die... they just GOSUB and never RETURN.

There are a couple of points I'd like to make clear. When I asked about your sources I meant Islam and not arab world, for your sources about arab world were fairly correct in general. For example what you said about arab leaders I admit is quite right. To talk about the 'arab world' means talking about two kinds of people; The Leaders, and The Rest. The Leaders have money and power, The Rest havn't. Yes, the arab leaders are abusing the palestinian cause for personal profit, or a as a cartoon that appeared in one of our newspapers said, "We are quite prepared to fight Israel until the last palestinian blood-drop" and sometimes "~ the last palestinian child". Terrorism has been unfairly linked to Islam and the Arabs. Well yes, we do have our criminals and wackos, and I also admit we have more than a fair share of terrorists. Where do these come from? This is a painful subject, at least to me. Sadly, most arab-based terrorist groups are Islam-based, or should I say claim they are Islam-based and that they are doing the will of God. That really hurt the picture of Islam. Moreover, some of our own cultural flows are linked to Islam as an excuse to avoid discussion about their 'wrong'ness or 'right'ness. This has resulted in a quite distorted and blurry picture of Islam. Some people use this picture to further their own agendas in the name of Islam. Terrorists, leaders and the like. About terrorists claiming the act in the name of God and by the directions of Islam. I won't go much into this. I think it is enough to tell you some of the directions the prophet Mohammad always gave to his soldiers before battle. It goes like this: "A man who is in his house is under protection. A man who drops his weapon is under protection. Do not kill the women. Do not kill the children. Do not kill the old. If you go into a room and find someone praying, leave him be. Do not burn houses, and do not take what is not yours. Do not burn trees, and do not kill animals, unless it was needed for food. ...". Any resemblance to what BinLaden's plane jockeys did? What I wanted to point out was the wrong picture of Islam everybody is being given. Most of it, sadly, comes from muslims. Muslims who fell under the guidance of demons in the guise of priests. What they are doing is not Islam. People in the arab world support these? Unwillingly. An opposed opinion is called a Heretic. And sadly we don't enjoy the freedom of opinion you have. Some people do protest, but they are silenced and kicked aside by the Leadership, which is rea

Reverend Stan wrote: No, I'm pretty sure he meant: "Any opinion that disagrees with my party line dogma is party line dogma". I think that whatever he meant with the words is his to say. You can't be 'pretty sure', you can only 'think' or 'believe'. Reverend Stan wrote: Everyone believes that their opinion is uniquely free of 'party line' thinking, regardless of how dogmatic it actually is. How many people do you know closely? 100? 1000? 10000? how many people are alive right now? do you think that the percent of people you 'know for sure' is enough to support such a claim? Excuse me, but I think it is a bit childish to arrive to such a 'definite' result except if it was supported by a fairly solid 'information' base. Also, I am quite curious about your sources and your 'education' about Islam. I am a muslim, in particular, I am a Palestinian. Let me start out by making the following statements: 1- If I knew were bin laden was, I would go shoot him myself. 2- I really believe what they do is wrong, absolutly wrong, though I do sympathize with their reasons. At least our suicidals, which come out of a situation I know very well. Reverend Stan wrote: But it is very difficult for me to understand how any sane civilization could think that any thing we have done could warrent such violence. The way you put it, it seems the whole islamic world (or should I say more specifically, the Arab World) prepared for this 'violence'. Bin Laden is no civilization. period. Reverend Stan wrote: I do not believe that the source of Islamic rage is based upon mere disagreements over Cold War policies, anti-communism, the Shah (sp?), or Israel (which is of mere symbolic importance to Islam). The real issue is not 'islamic' rage, although rage is an issue. It is more of a 'popular' rage. The people are angry. Sadly, some people are using this rage along with a distorted Islam to gain power, money, or both. Why there is rage, however, the reasons vary. Palestinians, for example, are quite angry that USA is always siding with Israel, something which we believe is not fair. And BTW, Israel is not of mere sybolic importance to Islam. Again I am curious about your sources on Islam. The importance is summed in two words: Palestine and Al-Quds (Jerusalem), and I don't think these words are considered 'merely symbolic', at least not with more than 4 million refugees scattered around the region

Douglas Adams. The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy series is fantastic. Reading is a hobby to me, and I can safely say I never read anything like this series, both in humor and, well, sensible strangeness. If you havn't read any of his works, chances are you wouldn't understand, if you did, well, you do. -- Young Basic programmers never die... they just GOSUB and never RETURN.

Actually velocity is connected to the issue but not directly. What causes the penny to 'implant' itself in teh cement is the energy it gets from velocity, or as the formal name goes, the Kinetic Energy. When the penny is at the top of the Empire State Bldg (or wherever that is) it gains energy (forgot the english name, it has something to do with position if I'm not mistaken) which is the energy calculated in the formula E=mgh. According to the law of preservation of energy this energy remains constant when you let the penny go down, and since it is no longer static, the energy stored transforms into Kinetic energy E= (m*v^2)/2. This energy is what causes a head to blow up when hit by a bullet.... As to the sattelite-asteroid stuff, the sattelite cannot destroy the asteroid of course. Because the asteroid is in vaccum, there are no forces acting upon it. A brand-name sattelite at the right spot in the right time will alter the course of even the biggest asteroid AS MUCH AS IT WOULD ALTER THE COURSE OF A FLYING SQUIRREL (at least almost)... It's only a matter of velocity and vectors. Oh, and for throwing rocks at mountains to move earth, try to pull yourself up by pulling your hair... if that works, you can move earth in that way... One final note... size (mass) DOES matter, but the matter itself matters too. Actually a trait of the 'metals' used (it is called Hardiness, I believe) determines which hurts which more, the same way a bullet will do much more damage than a melon thrown at the same speed, although the melon has many times more mass than the bullet. Damn... I'm a geek and I'm boring... what's the name of that shrink again? :~ -- Young Basic programmers never die... they just GOSUB and never RETURN.

I believe that you use the (dwStyle & WS_VISIBLE) to test if WS_VISIBLE bit is set in dwStyle, which might help you with what you want. However a better way to do this is to use the OR operator ( it's the | : shift+\) the OR operation results in true if any of the arguments was true and false if none were true. ie 1 or 1 = 1 1 or 0 = 1 0 or 1 = 1 0 or 0 = 0 while the AND (&) is only true if both arguments were true. Since WS_VISIBLE is always true, the | operator with dwStyle and WS_VISIBLE will always force the bit you are interested in to true. The usage should be along the lines of: dwStyle= dwStyle | WS_VISIBLE; This will make sure that the flag bit is forced to true while the rest of the bits are unmodified (since WS_VISIBLE has only one bit turned to true). exp: dwStyle 1001110101110111 WS_VISIBLE 0000000010000000 Binary OR (|) 1001110111110111 this is called the Binary OR since it compares bits and results in bits, & is Binary AND too. && and || are the logical operators and compare the arguments bit by bit by return only true or false. Please correct me if I'm wrong, it's been quite a while :) ... -- Young Basic programmers never die... they just GOSUB and never RETURN.