Smedley Butler is one of the great unsung heroes of American history.
He was a modest man of incredible courage and integrity.
At the time of his death, he was the most decorated Marine in U.S. history.
He also wrote the classic and unfortunately still very relevant tract "War is a Racket"
It basically describes America's foreign policy in terms of maximizing profits for organized crime.

the full text is available here.

http://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html

Sam
I know this.

I always have all hidden files set to be visible, and have repeatedly deleted thumbs.db
Explorer is actually MORE likely to briefly flash the original pre-edited image when i have deleted ALL stored thumbs and Explorer has to create all new thumbs.

oh well..
I guess its back to glass vacuum tubes and brave all-volunteer "Victory Pilots" flying inside the ICBMs to guide them to their destination.

About Photo anonymity,
In VISTA (don't laugh at me please) when i'm looking in a folder using explorer, a glitch
happens with "fossilized" thumbnails of image files.

It tends to happen in folders containing more than 100 image files.
The thumbnails initially appear as the ORIGINAL image but after a second, the thumbs seem to auto refresh to show the current image state.

For instance, if there were shots you cropped yourself out of,
Anyone with vista can see YOU in thumbnails for a second before the thumb refreshes to the current
image state...

it seems to be something with the structure of the image files (and NOT VISTA stored back up
tempfiles) since it seems to happen equally with files that are 7 years old, and have been bounced back and forth from pc to mac and back again.

Does anyone out there know anything about this?

Its like the Manson family meets "Little House on the Prairie".

When i was kid, we had no TV and i used to play this game with food coloring in the toilet basin(with flushing being the climax of course)
I did this a lot!! I mean for hours and hours until my legs went numb from kneeling!!

I think i got the idea because i'd been allowed to see the Dark Crystal and had read that the way they made the sky effects was with an aquarium full of dye.

The footage of the aborted test is here.
Good thing no one got hurt.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0kWgcIlWn0

ahhh... sweet nostalgic ultra violence.
I miss the days when dystopian fiction was still fiction.

Re: the picture of the robot lighting the lady's cigarette.
My own lady-partner assures me this clearly depicts a post coital smoke.

According to Rupert's own theories of morphic resonance,
now that he has been stabbed in the leg ONCE by a wacko,
Rupert and all scientists similar to him are henceforth predisposed to be repeatedly stabbed in the leg over and over and over and over and over by similar wackos…
Could be some truth to it...