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I found an old EHD of mine, but when I try to hook it up I get this error telling me that driver software wasn't installed:

http://i1.minus.com/ivfdpgP3QthAn.jpg

I went to Western Digital's website and found my product, but it doesn't appear as though any of these files are what I'm looking for:

http://support.wdc.com/product/download.asp?modeln...

The IDE RAID compatibility upgrades would seem to be the most correct ones, but my EHD is 250G (above the 120 limit in the description) and I'm pretty sure this EHD is newer than 2003.

Additionally, the instructions are a tad confusing to me. If these are the wrong files, then obviously disregard this, but if there is a correct file there then do I just extract the files to the C: or D: drives?

Or is there another method to access this old drive?

Why does the narrative always focus on Israel?

Don't Palestinians have a right to defend themselves?

They are, after all, the ones being forced to live in the world's largest open-air prison at conditions intentionally just above humanitarian crisis levels.

The news always talks about Israel defending itself against rocket attacks from Gaza...implying that such rocket attacks are unprovoked.

The reality is far different.

Israel actually set off the current cycle of violence by murdering a 13-year old Gazan boy. Do Palestinians not have a right to retaliate?

If an unprompted Gazan rocket killed an Israeli child, would the media not then be using that as the excuse for Israel to pound Gaza with high-tech weaponry?

The same thing happened in late 2008, during the election. It is admitted fact, even in Israel, that the IDF was the initial aggressor against which Gazans were retaliating against. Even so, it was still framed as "Israel defending itself".

Isn't this similar to Mike Tyson knocking out Pee Wee Herman, and when Pee Wee wakes up and slaps Mike, Mike claims self-defense as he breaks Pee Wee's neck?

According to the most recent figures I can find, there were 234,564,000 citizens in the United States of voting age.

62,278,404 people voted for Barack Obama.

This is not about Barack Obama as it would be no different had Mitt Romney won.

But using these figures, only 26.55% of people actually chose Obama. 73% of people did not choose Obama.

That doesn't strike me as being very democratic, where the decisions are supposed to be made by the majority.

Now, please don't come at me with some tripe about how it is a duty to vote and people who don't vote are relinquishing their right to have a say in the government that rules over them. There is a two party system in the United States, and to suggest that all potential voters are going to fall into one of two narrow categories is ridiculous.

The fact is that the vast majority of people did not choose Obama as president.

What are your thoughts on this?

I'm trying to run a script in Oracle 10g XE.

Most of the script executes fine, but I get the "missing right parentheses" error on this.

CREATE TABLE CUSTOMER(

CUST_CODE NUMBER NOT NULL,

CUST_NAME VARCHAR(35) NOT NULL,

CUST_PHONE NUMBER NOT NULL,

CUST_ADDRESS VARCHAR(35) NOT NULL

BID_ID NUMBER NOT NULL)

PRIMARY KEY (CUST_CODE);

INSERT INTO CUSTOMER VALUES (1000, 'AL Brown', '5555551111', '110 Pacific St');

INSERT INTO CUSTOMER VALUES (1001, 'Chris Doty', '5555552222', '220 Center St');

INSERT INTO CUSTOMER VALUES (1002, 'Ellen Frank', '5555553333', '330 Q ST');

INSERT INTO CUSTOMER VALUES (1003, 'Greg Horn', '5555554444', '440 Harrison St');

I don't see where the parentheses is missing.

And then I get errors for these dates:

INSERT INTO ACC_RCV VALUES(1000, 625.00, '06-APR-2012',' ', 5004, 18001, 1000);

INSERT INTO ACC_RCV VALUES(1001, 500.00, '03-APR-2012', ' ', 5003, 18002, 1001);

But not these dates:

INSERT INTO ACC_RCV VALUES(1002, 00.00, '04-APR-2012',' 6-MAR-2012', 5002, 18003, 1002);

INSERT INTO ACC_RCV VALUES(1003, 00.00, '28-MAR-2012','4-MAR-2012', 5001, 18004, 1003);

lolwut?

I have this assignment where I need to add columns to a table in the SQL Command Line Interface of Oracle 10g XE.

The database is for an air charter service and the table is CHARTER.

I need to add an attribute called CHAR_FLT_CHG_HR, which is copied from the MODEL table using an attribute called MOD_CHG_MILE.

I feel like it ought to be something like:

ALTER TABLE charter

ADD char_flt_chg_hr AS (

But that is as far as I get. How do I reference another table when I use the ALTER TABLE statement?

Further problems are as such:

CHAR_FLT_CHG is a new column that is char_hours_flown x char_flt_chg_hr, but I am unclear about how to use an aggregate function within an ALTER TABLE statement.

I can't test it out now because I don't have the char_flt_chg_hr column created yet, but it seems that it might be:

ALTER TABLE charter

ADD char_flt_chg AS (char_hours_flown x char_flt_chg_hr)

or something along those lines?

And further still, there is one that wants me to calculate a charge with tax, CHAR_TAX_CHG.

Would this be something like...?

ALTER TABLE charter

ADD char_tax_chg AS (char_flt_chg x .08)

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Because I've looked for it, and it doesn't exist.

I'm not looking for some US mainstream media article with a headline like:

Iran says they want to "wipe" Israel off the "map"

or some bullshite.

I mean, what is/are the actual quote(s)?

If you happen to find the quote...is it about Jews, or is it about the government of Israel?

And does the quote make any allusion to violent aggression against Jews or Israel, or does it express a desire for the government of Israel to fall?

You know...kind of like what Israel and the US want to happen to Iran's government.

Except that the US and Israel actually take action to try to carry out that desire.

I eagerly await your failure to prove the silly notion that Iran wants to destroy Israel, or as you propagandists love to say, "wipe them off the map".

This issue has been front and center lately. The media is doing a good job of pushing the narrative that Iran wants to develop a nuclear weapon, but all of the intelligence agencies are in agreement about that narrative being completely false since there is no evidence Iran is trying to get a nuke.

Does this bother anyone else to see the government and the media pushing this big lie so hard?

On my laptop I will have four bars on my network meter, yet browsers will fail to load pages intermittently as if the connection were down.

When pages fail to load, I can ping without any packet loss.

I say "browsers" because I have tried more than one, the issue persists across all broswers.

Sometimes I can Troubleshoot > Diagnose and it will end up resetting the network adapter, and browsers will work again.

Sometimes when I Diagnose, it doesn't recognize any problems. I manually reset the network adapter and browsers work again.

Sometimes when I manually Diagnose it resets the network adapter, yet browsers still do not work.

I can power cycle or reset the network but it is always a temporary remedy.

One would assume that there is some issue in the realm of network adapters, but an old PC (that I rarely turn on) seems to be susceptible to the same malady.

I don't even...

On my laptop I will have four bars on my network meter, yet browsers will fail to load pages intermittently as if the connection were down.

When pages fail to load, I can ping without any packet loss.

Sometimes I can Troubleshoot > Diagnose and it will end up resetting the network adapter, and browsers will work again.

Sometimes when I Diagnose, it doesn't recognize any problems. I manually reset the network adapter and browsers work again.

Sometimes when I manually Diagnose it resets the network adapter, yet browsers still do not work.

I can power cycle or reset the network but it is always a temporary remedy.

One would assume that there is some issue in the realm of network adapters, but an old PC (that I rarely turn on) seems to be susceptible to the same malady.

I don't even...

when the polices they advocate more closely resemble ideas that have been around for hundreds of years prior to the dark ages.

The government becomes an insiders club, a tool for special interests that kidnaps, steals and generally oppresses the governed while its apologists claim it is for our own good.

Fundamentally, constitutional principles would "take us back" to the late 1700s.

Fundamentally, the logical result of left-wing big state principles would take us back far earlier.

Hence, liberals' portrayal of conservatism being relative to the dark ages only succeeds in illustrating the ignorance of the person making the portrayal.

The idea that we own ourselves and no one else has a higher claim on us than we do, and therefore we can do as our free will compels us to do, so long as we don't harm anyone else.

And is that justification REALLY a justification, or is it just an excuse?

I commonly hear people say that the Taliban is the enemy and they need to be removed from power.

Some will say that we've just got to completely destroy al Qaeda, and since the Taliban are in cahoots with them then the Taliban is the enemy too.

In case you haven't noticed, the war effort is not going well. It has taken a decade and trillions of taxpayer dollars.

If you believe the cause is legitimate, then what is the justification for a continued, full-scale military campaign in Afghanistan?

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If you call America's government a democracy, someone might say "Its not a democracy, its a representative republic." They might go on about how democracy is mob rule and that it is akin to two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.

This implies that 51% should not be able to rule over 49%.

Why is it better for the 51% to vote to give proxy legislative power to a single individual, over the 100%?

To that, some people might make a point that it'd be very hard for millions of people to vote on laws and such. I think they're a little misguided. It has nothing to do with efficiently creating new laws, but creating the right framework of laws that people can agree with.

For instance, a man in Indiana has little interest in what the laws of New Mexico are...how is it better for Indiana to appoint a representative that has influence on the laws of New Mexico, and vice versa, than people determining their own rules, locally?

No references to the US Constitution, please. This question is not about a 200 year old magical scroll, it's about logic.

If you call America's government a democracy, someone might say "Its not a democracy, its a representative republic." They might go on about how democracy is mob rule and that it is akin to two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.

This implies that 51% should not be able to rule over 49%.

Why is it better for the 51% to vote to give proxy legislative power to a single individual, over the 100%?

No references to the US Constitution, please.

Suppose you don't want your new child to have a SSN.

According to the Social Security Administration, it is not mandatory:

http://www.socialsecurity.gov/pubs/10023.html#a0=1

Must my child have a Social Security number?

No. Getting a Social Security number for your newborn is voluntary. But, it is a good idea to get a number when your child is born. You can apply for a Social Security number for your baby when you apply for your baby’s birth certificate. The state agency that issues birth certificates will share your child’s information with us and we will mail the Social Security card to you.

If you wait to apply at a Social Security office, you must show us proof of your child’s U.S. citizenship, age and identity, as well as proof of your own identity. We must verify your child’s birth record, which can add up to 12 weeks to the time it takes to issue a card. To verify a birth certificate, Social Security will contact the office that issued it. We do this verification to prevent people from using fraudulent birth records to obtain Social Security numbers to establish false identities.

But what happens to the child once they become an adult?

Do they still have to pay FICA taxes?

Since government regulations, such as on banks, require a SSN be furnished...does that mean the child wouldn't be able to open a bank account?

What else?

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I have a PDF that I want to take potentially hundreds of screen shots of. What I'd ideally like to do is set up an automated process that starts on a specific page, takes a screen shot and saves it to a specific place, and then moves to the next page and does it all over again.

Is such a thing possible?

They sent me a notice in the mail today saying that I need to pay the civil penalty of $168.

It was in a different State than I live in and, no matter what, I plan on not paying out of principle.

But I have two questions:

Half of me wants to write up a letter, or some kind of response...

The city (Sioux Falls, Iowa) contracted with a private company, Redflex Traffic Systems, Inc. in Phoenix Arizona.

Check here for some interesting information, critical of Redflex: http://www.fireredflex.com/

So if I respond in some way, I would bring up issues like that: how shady the company is, some of their nefarious practices and the trend of municipalities dropping them.

But the other half of me is thinking I should just throw the notice away.

The notice says at the bottom that since it is a civil penalty neither the DMV nor my insurance provider will be notified, but if I fail to pay then a $35 late fee will be tacked on and they will hire a collections agency to come after me.

I have no problem telling the collections agency off either, but if I choose to do this, it would have an impact on my credit?

Other than that, what are your opinions on the issue?

Specifically, from any copyright monitor that would notify my ISP in the event that I inadvertently engage in illegal file sharing.

I haven't used torrents in awhile, so I'm a little out of the loop. I used to use Peer Guardian, but it wasn't completely effective.

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What is the philosophical basis behind arriving at such an opinion?