Ross that is a very topical issue; there is no clear distinction between a freedom fighter and a terrorist. There is a very good documentary series currently showing on Al jazeera that questions what the difference is. By todays standards, the allied partisan resistance fighters in WW2 would have been classed as terrorists. http://english.aljazeera.net/programmes/general/2009/02/20092565012929122.html There is no internationally agreed definition. @unknownuser said: Terrorism expert Walter Laqueur has counted over 100 definitions and concludes that the 'only general characteristic generally agreed upon is that terrorism involves violence and the threat of violence.' Yet terrorism is hardly the only enterprise involving violence and the threat of violence. So does war, coercive diplomacy, and barroom brawls." @unknownuser said: The Patriot Act defined “terrorist activity” so broadly that it encompasses virtually any deed, even if carried out under threat of death or against a brutal regime. The Patriot Act also liberalized the definition of “terrorist organizations”: In addition to the Tier I and Tier II lists of known and actual terrorist groups, a terrorist organization could now be any “group of two or more individuals, whether organized or not,” which engages in any form of “terrorist activity” thusly defined. source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Definition_of_terrorism

Susan, I might be the same - the solution is not to make plans! Pete: the whole, meandering story looks like a simple excuse to watch porn...

That must be it! Maybe Stu could wise us up .... or should that be down?

Reminds me of that Monty Python sketch about the tallest man in the world.

Thank You..That is it. I thought it mentined Firewalls also but...

Look at what Equadorian did rather quickly along these lines using some free scripts available here on the forum. http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=16484 Its half way down that page. The general idea is he made a grid, then randomly subdivided some of it using Jim protrude script. Then randomly applied colors to it, replaced the colors with images. THen ran greeble on it. and voi-la! his city. Its pretty impressive, especially for free scripts. And yes, making a more in depth city generator is a dream of mine that I'm slowly working on. Chris

I just tried PPB and it comes up OK . 3:46 p.m. central standard time -(Chicago time).

Maybe his inbox is full.

You just described 1/2 of my working life. ( the part where I'm not doing the design work) Although I can successfully import full 3d models from AutoCad Architect, Vectorworks, and Softplan, I find that SketcUp doesn't like the geometry they bring, and aside from the problems caused by bad draftsmanship, they are still glitchy. I am going to try to get some of the culprits to use DoubleCAD XT, from idx http://www.doublecad.com, as from the sounds of it it may make the integration with SketchUp fairly simple,( and I like the integration between SketchUp and rendering software) while providing at least the AutoCad users with a familiar set of tools to use. I know it has been said before, but it is interesting how there seems to be boundaries that software designers don't cross. I know that some processes seem to be under patent (hence the SketchUp shadow bug), but I keep wondering why someone isn't working on an integrated solution.

second one is the better choice. thanks Dave and keep up your good work

It's a Piglet Squid, Helicocranchia pfefferi. See http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2009/01/friday_cephalopod_some_pig.php amongst others

@august said: @tomot said: ... Perhaps the fountain pen solution should have been adapted for the printer. An elegant idea. The Fisher company spent millions of dollars to develop a pen that would write in zero gravity for NASA. It got a closeup in Kubrick's "2001". The Russians used pencils. Not quite. Fisher spent about $1m of their own money to develop the pen and patent it. NASA bought about 400, apparently at around $6 each. The Soviet program bought a hundred or so to replace the grease pencils they had (like NASA) previously used. No one would use normal graphite pencils; at least not if they wanted to survive the mission. Care to imagine the electrical problems that might arise from graphite dust floating around a micro-gravity capsule? Dead astronauts are such an embarrassment.

This thread is hilarious. Having just come up for air after 6 months modeling, writing and finally publishing another book, I was just checking to see what was happening in the SU community. Good to see all remains lively... We could not stop laughing...thanks!! /Dennis

Everything at FormFonts is as cross-platform as the styles, materials and models uploaded to SCF. There is no information on FF about that, because...as far as anyone is aware...it's simply not an issue.

probably a cure for cancer and a perpetual motion machine, if they're on par with this.

About the same, which is still a lot, but i am printing 2 pages on 1 side and dubblesided. Also has got to do with a lot of reading in different documents at the same time and only having one monitor. Printing makes it easier... unfortunately

domains & hosting is cheap, ray-ochoa.com is (still) free: http://www.godaddy.com/ for generating content, get a WebCMS, e.g.: http://www.wordpress.com/ http://www.joomla.org/ tons of free and commercial templates avail. have fun, Norbert

this might help: http://www.deathindexes.com/texas/index.html

@unknownuser said: On Wednesday, President Obama announced limits on executive pay at $500,000 at companies who receive bailout funds. "In order to restore our financial system, we’ve got to restore trust,” the president said. “And in order to restore trust, we’ve got to make certain that taxpayer funds are not subsidizing excessive compensation packages on Wall Street." Maybe he's listening?

Hi stinkie.