Fantastic Yawar! I googled, I searched but I never would have thought to look there :) This did the trick. Thanks.

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How do you form the filepath string to indicate you want to save a file to the desktop? I know "C:\\FOLDER\\FILE.TXT" but what is the path to the desktop? A client asked me to make a simple change to a downloadable web installer tool I wrote. It used to have a File...Save As dialog and they wanted me to change it to automatically save to the dektop. No problem! I said I'd do it for free. Delete the common dialog code, change the CFile.SetFilePath code from CCommonDialog.GetPathName to............ what? What is that magical cobination of ascii characters that tells my app to save to the desktop? TIA!

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I have no beef with people who point out past mistakes. But to try and use past mistakes as a reason to not do the right thing in the present is counter productive to say the least.

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Lemmsjid wrote: I can only shake my head in wonder that you would imagine I believe half the things you insist that I do. ........... I know that you are only against "terrorists". But what is a "terrorist"? Is this is one of those things? If you don't see the difference between [Saddam Hussein, The Taliban and Al Quaeda] and the USA then you must understand why I vented my spleen in your general direction. Without all of my personal feelings toward you, I will just say that I can't see eye to eye with any person that doesn't understand that we are in a conflict of vast proportions and the outcome of this will affect the lives of billions of people in the future. Talking about how the Taliban and Al Quaeda are no different than the USA is not a conversation I am able to have without finding myself deeply suspicious about the motives of the person talking. I don't care if you can explain to me how this endless cycle of violence is really a bad way to behave. You may have very detailed studies with respected academicians frowning and pointing with their long pointers to official charts and bar graphs all showing that violence begats violence and is therefore, like, totally not cool. But the real life facts are that if we do what the terrorists want us to do - NOTHING, then they will win. And by supporting this position you are supporting my enemies position. Lemmsjid wrote: And who are the terrorists who want us to be their slaves? Slavery isn't practiced in fundamentalist Islamic countries, so why would they suddenly (were they, amazingly enough, to take us over) make us slaves? Cool sarcasm! Don't worry - I can handle it. Anyways, I call a population where a woman can be murdered for walking around without a cloth over her face slavery. I call a place that is ruled by freaks that beat the shit out of anyone that they see applauding at a soccer game or laughing in public a nation of slaves. But lets play your game. OK - fine. We won't call it slavery - even though their daughters are given away at 11 or 12 years old to fat-assed 50 year old men. I'd call that slavery too. You go ahead and use whatever word for this lovely flower garden you picture in your mind if the terrorists win. And they would take us over in a heartbeat if we did what you want and not fight back. Or are you going to say, no - if they attack us then we can fight back and burn their faces off and shatter their bones with high explosives and shoot them in the

How convenient. They couldn't find the man for ages and then less than 2 hours after the word gets out they killed the American they surround his compound. 1 of 3 things happened: 1) The Saudis always knew where they were but had a deal that the hostage wouldn't be killed. When they violated this, the Saudis closed in. 2) The Americans told the Saudis that if they allowed the American to be killed, we would kill the terrorists ourselves. 3) It was a total coincidence.

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Say hello to Elsa for me!

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Chris Q wrote: In your bloodthirsty cry for revenge, in which a thousand of "them" die for every one of "us" Nice try - but my definition of "them" has always been terrorists. If you don't advocate fighting back and killing terrorists then yeah - I consider you a friend of my enemy because you are advocating their exact position. Chris Q wrote: When the average Arab no longer sees the United States ham-handededly messing with their political system, then the United States will begin to fade in their minds I can't tell if you genuinely believe this, or if it is just the hip thing to say these days amongst the terrorist appeaser in-crowd. You use the term "ham-handed". This makes me think you may be rather intelligent since it leaves you the out of saying "I never said the US had to totally leave - just stop doing it ham-handedly!". But you weaken your overall position by using such sludgy techniques. Do you believe that if the USA advocates a reactionary isolationist policy the way the old republicans wanted that Islamic extremists would truly ignore the USA? What happens when they overthrow the Saudi government? WHat happens when the world's oil is in the hands of the Taliban? What happens when they realize that the USA is still cowering in its shell and its political process is being manipulated by whining pacifists whose very stance causes more people to be slaughtered than by fighting back against evil? Or do you believe terrrorists aren't evil? They just want to force the world into a yoke where women are stoned to death for kissing their boyfriends and men are beaten to death for singing songs. Those people won't stop until the entire world has been remade in their image or until they are wiped off the face of the earth. Dead. Their ashes scattered, their allies locked up, their homes raised and their children removed. I think the real issue is that you know that you will be dead long before that can happen so you would rather look hip and progressive by siding with the terrorists on the issue of whether or not the just nations should fight back. Either you don't believe there is a war going on or you truly believe it will all go away if we just crawl into a big hole and hope the maniacs will ignore us and slaughter other people instead. Chris Q wrote: Do not forget that Johnson's killing was in revenge for other killings, and that those killings were in revenge for other killings. So what? Don

Nice attempt at retrofitting. I was talking about the post 9/11 world.

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It amazes me that there are still people who want to just click their heels together three times and wish themselves into a world that can ignore those bastards. "Yo DUDE!!!!!!! Like if it weren't for our TOTAL dependence on foreign oil then we could like blow off that whole downer middle-east place man! Peace brother!" These idiots don't seem to realize that the world is where it is and prefer to live in a fantasy world where all of the terrorism would go away and the radical mulim freaks would love America if everyone traded in their car for a Vespa or a Segway. They sit their with the technology that wouldn't be possible without oil, 99% of them drive oil burning cars. They all use plastics and other petroleum based products. If they were anything other than clueless hypocrites they would move to the Australian outback, start a commune with lots of sandals and hairy women and plant soybeans and talk about how groovy everything was. THen you have the "Like you Americans are too aggressive eh. Why don't you mellow out, eh? You don't see us being attacked by Al Queda, eh?" Brainiacs. They fail to realize that without the USA, radical muslim freaks would be over running many countries. Why do they target the USA? Because why bother targetting a mouse? No publicity there. And finally the supreme idiots - the "Bring our troops home now" dumbfucks. Do these asswipes actually believe that if the USA came home we would be SAFER?!?!?! That if the US left the region all of the muslim extremist freaks would just settle down and go back to playing tiddly-winks and holding Koran quote trivia contests? THis is so wrong that I have no respect for the people that say this. What would happen would be all of the governments in the middle east would turn into fundamentalist Christian,,, I mean Taliban countries. And in those countries terrorist training camps would spring up and we would be attacked continously. Anyone who doesn't want to fight back and kill a thousand of them for every one of us killed is the friend of my enemy.

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If all of the terrorists and their supporters (and their apologists) disappeared, the world would be a much better place. Before anyone starts crying about Big Brother, pls. read what I said. If you don't think those types of people should be disappeared or simply killed in plain view then count yourselves among the apologists.

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We should be so much nicer to terrorist supporters.........

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Absolutely!!!!

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Thanks - advice I will follow!

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No, just Visual Studio.NET 2003. Just for watching and commenting on a few movies! I got the link to the Microsoft.com page with the offer right here in the soap box and began watching the same day. Today I got a little package in the mail and I was quite happy :) Wheeeeeeeeee! New toys! :)

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I did the thing at Microsoft where I watched 5 movies and gave my reviews and sure enough - I got my box in the mail today - 100% free. It is the full-blown version Visual basic.NET 2003 (standard edition) - came with the box, CD-Key, End-user SLA, "Getting Started" book (over 120 pages) and 6 CD-ROMs: Windows 2000 SP4, Visual basic .NET 2003, Visual Studio .NET and 3 CDs of the MSDN library. The only difference is that there is an orange sticker on the box that says "Promotional Sample, not for resale". Thanks Microsoft!!!!!

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Colin Angus Mackay wrote: I am curious as the the explanation he gave which satisfied other party members to allow him to remain a candidate in the upcoming election. He probably just said "Well, they weren't thongs......"

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Jeff Bogan wrote: Pakistan detonates a-bomb with no warning from CIA Just because ordinary citizens aren't "warned" doesn't mean that the US govt. didn';t know about it. It was in our best interests to act surprised so we couldn't be accused of knowing about it but not preventing it. I wish other nations would quit squandering their resources trying to do what we did 60 years ago by trying to become a "NUCLEAR POWER" ooooooh!!! WOW. You are an important country now!!! All the smart countries don't bother wasting their time. It is ridiculous and noone thinks you would ever use them anyways. Why bother? It is like 9 year old boys trying to wear their father's business suit.

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That is awesome! It really puts the stupidity of it all in perspective! yay, population of earth: doubled! k lads, there's work to do k, i'll go work the land * Cain is now known as Cain^Land k, i'll go herd some sheep * Abel is now known as Abel^Herd ah they're good lads Yes we have done well look, mum, my turnips are doing great! I'll go burn some to honour God! * Cain burns a turnip * Jehova sniffs that smells great, Cain, you are a good man! That is really all that entire book is about :) Where did Cain's wife come from? ASL? 14, F, Nazareth wanna cyber? Cant, i'm pregnant lol!!~ WTF? Holy spirit got to me gross, i'm outta here * Angel has joined #World Wait Joseph You should keep this woman, for her son will save people from sins You must call him Emmanuel ok, cool * Angel has left #World I'll call him jesus :) ROTFL!!!!! HAHAHAHA!!!! Oh man, I can see why ignorant semi-civilized nomads 4000 years ago fell for it, but today? Sort of sad.......

You are just as wrong today as the idiots in 1946 who thought *they* were all-knowing when they whined about the conditions after the war. The only sad thing is that several years down the road when Iraq is peaceful, democratic and wealthy is that you people will be mysteriously silent.

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