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http://s93725736.onlinehome.us/Sip/hf/yum_turkey.jpg Anyone want to help me figure out where this is? I really want to travel there.

Oh and you can run a RAID system on the PC to eliminate (or really reduce) the chances of disk errors ... or at least such that you can recover if a hard disk crashes.

"absolutely no data must be lost" ... you have said a mouth full. You can't accomplish that by backing up. A "back up" will only get you back to the most recent valid backup so you can't guarranty no data will be lost. One way to do this, is to have 2 identical databases. The VB "front end" will update both databases on each request. This way, if one file gets corrupted, the other will still be valid. Note that with 2, you may not know which one is corrupt and which one is valid. So you can use 3 databases and any 2 that match will determine the most likely "valid" case. Things to keep in mind: 0) Clearly you want the databases separate (even though they are identical) ... so separate access files. 1) It's preferable to have the files on separate PCs to minimize chances of loss, or at least on separate hard disks (or network mounts as the case may be) 2) The VB interface should be bug free. Otherwise, it'll corrupt both databases simultanously 3) You can extend this to k concurrent databases (mirrors?) Of course on TOP of this, you want to do your backups. Depending on the size of the database, you can do it as often as every second down to once a year using the method Azat has suggested. Another thing you can do in additional to all this is, as Azat suggested, to have a background task that exports the data out of the database into some sort of "data file" ... like you can come up with your own visual basic routine to output the data into some ASCII file. This way, even if the database and the backups get corrupted, you will have the data in your own format that you can use to recreate and repopulate the database. A lot of this is overkill but some things demand nothing less

As far as I know, the picture is real but I didn't take it myself so I am not 100% sure. Those tires can take a lot of abuse ... trust me, I know Here's something I found very funny! $50,000 H2 gets stuck in parking lot, and is pulled free by a jeep.

http://s93725736.onlinehome.us/Sip/misc/jv-13.jpg And no, he didn't roll it from what I hear!!!!!

Ok I was not going to get involved in putting the spilled ginni back in the bottle but this almost made me spill my ginni ... Yes you were SUSPENDED for changing about 50 of your posts into ":D" after a lot of people spent a lot of time addressing them and trying to have a discussion ... but must we go back to this? What does that have anything to do with you not attacking anyone? Now about your previous long post, the only part I have a comment on is North Korea ... so just because North Korea is a threat, does that make Iraq any less of a problem? I was not aware of North Korea failing to cooperate with UN inspectors over and over and over ... actually, as far as I understand, North Korea is quite vocal about having WMD and its intent on using them. So that makes it very different than Iraq who repeatedly failed to comply with UN resolutions and wishes, even after agreeing to do so (I'm talking over an entire decade).

Point taken. Now in retrospect, I must say that having reached the post 9/11 era, Bush having been elected was probably the better outcome than Gore. Unfortunately, it's hard to apply hindsight when future matters are concerned though.

Sorry MJ, but I can only base my valuation of a man on my internal functions and dysfunctions, subject to what that person is trying to convey to me when talking to me. I couldn't care less if he chokes on a pretzle at home, or runs into a tree while riding a bike, or trips and falls while jogging. All I know is that I don't trust him to be able to make decisions logically without resorting to his special interest supporters and his God to tell him what to do. Now this is coming from a guy who strongly supported (supports) his invasion of Iraq. But not because of the reasons he gave. I understand your wish to discuss the more "important" things that make a leader ... but as far as public, economic, foreign, domestic, etc etc etc policies are concerned, they are faaaaar too complex to be decided on a binary (republican or democrat candidate) basis. So all we are left with under this system are our personal valuations of the kind of person we are voting for, as a heuristic to judge the "better" candiate. Edit: Especially for someone who is generally in the middle like me.

Even though they are not just one or tow, I only laugh at his "bluppers". It's the other stuff he says that makes me cringe. It's him trying to formulate an answer, live, to a question that makes my head veins want to explode with disgust and shame. It's his idiotic smirk every time he uses a big word and repeated uses of the word "evil doers", "terrorist", "cowards" to justify any and all his actions. Every one fumbles while talking here and there ... heck even I myself once said "sexors" instead of "sensors" while giving an academic talk. Basically, what I am trying to say is that I simply cannot comprehend how a person with the communication skills of a teenage zit faced remedial high school boy has been "elected" the leader of the greatest country on earth. That is just disturbing as hell <_< But then again, George Carlin said it best ... I am rephrasing here ... that the fact that all these politicians that end up in power are so screwed up may be because there is no one better fit to lead. Maybe we have the creame of the crop as it is. It just pains me to think that Bush was the best one we could find.

Was the first time for me! And coming from him made it even funnier ...

My dad just said something that made me laugh as he was watching a CNN report on the iPod ... he turns around and tells me: "Yes ktsats xndzor chem sirum"

Gevo, have you ever heard Bush speak? You think "television" falsifies what he says? And where the heck did you figure out that not having Bush will hurt the morals of this country? First of all, where did you arrive at your conclusion about the "moral" qualifications that bush has, and second of all, since when is the government in the business of dictating the moral rules? Now on a lighter note, I think we should all take a look at This Land ... and if that link doesn't work, try this one (you may have to try a few times).

Same place as 98. It's called "recycled" off the root directory. You may have to disable the "hide" system files/folders option to see it. You can also get to it from the desktop icon of course.

I have no idea who that could be. Maybe we should ask Thoth I know people always make fun of box wine ... but one time I got pretty loaded off that stuff at my uncle's house. I was about 16 I think and I kept mixing it with coke!!!!! It went down pretty smooth

... we teach them how to score highly on tests (which may well be self-evaluation tests)

http://s93725736.onlinehome.us/Sip/hf/azat_job.jpg Hey Azat, I heard about your new office! Not bad ... at least the view is nice.

My brother and I just got done connecting with the spirits outside ... it was about 100F but well worth it There's nothing like fresh "davari xhorovats" right off the fire.

I tend to think of it more as "not confusing what basically is emotionality with extra meanings attached to it through our overactive imaginations" ... some choose to call it "spirituality" by relying on this abstract concept of the "spirit" to describe that which we don't really understand in a human.

Wait a minute ... but that would make me a spiritual leader of sorts. So on second thought, just enjoy the xhorovats and discover the higher level of existence on your own. And why am I quoting myself.... must be this damn heat. I can't wait to get back to that nice mid west with the cows and cheese and beer and fat women ... oh wait, forgot about the fat women. I like LA just the way it is.

Isn't any "spiritual leader" a charlatan by definition? I don't see what the big fuss is about. I think we should all get together at Movses's house for some xhorovats and gini and I'll show you all what spiritual fulfilment is all about. ... and I'm sure there'll even be some flowers and leaves for Azat to enjoy. Note: I didn't want to say "xhod"

There are already laws about credit card fraud. What happened to him was a criminal act and not a result of the run of the mill "spy-ware" that he has been complaining about. Even as loose as things are, I don't think any legitimate company would risk engaging in that type of an act as ultimately as open as the net is, it's easy to trace where the money is coming and going. We are going to go through growing pains and legislating laws isn't going to do anything for a global entity like the internet. It's gotta come from within the "community" as you said. But there is really no single community as of yet.

A(k+1): He actually has said: "If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure."

Well there is a thick line between harmless data collected about marketing as part of an agreement to install free software (as long as it is explicitly stated and not hidden in complex mumbo jumbo) and out right criminal actions such as credit card fraud. Most "spyware" falls in the first category and is not intended to be malicious. However, I fully agree that the user must be informed of ANY action the software installed on her system will perform, especially if it is going to communicate data to a third party. Often what ends up happening is that a system may get "infected" with several such "harmless" trackers after which the resources that get consumed for their crap becomes substantial. I suspect what is going to end up happening is that for a while to come, this will turn out to be like the cat and mouse game the virus phenomena turned into ... more and more sophisticated schemes will pop up circumventing the rules until the anti-whatevers catch up and put a halt to them and then wait till the circle re-forms and we go at it again.

How is the per capita income computed? A simple average?