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I agree a derringer will do the job.The only derringers I have shot have two shots so a second chance .A .45 derringer requires a firm grip to keep it from jumping out of your hand.The .22 is one of the deadliest to get shot with as long as it doesn't need to penetrate anything but the body & regular clothes. On the amount of rounds a gun can hold its just arbitrary,The staets do it because they can.Actually the states shouldn't have any say & the federal government limited control.The second amendment should be absolute.The right to bear arms any time any place.If you commit a crimanal act with the gun then you get the death penalty.That's what was intended for gun control.If you don't commit a criminal act then an American is supposed to have the right to bear arms anywhere .If you are tresspassing then its a tresspassing violation not an arms violation. Dark_Matter ; I can bare arms anywhere but right now my rights are being taken away because I can't bear arms anywhere.

philp ;I'm glad you enjoyed it.Heston is no longer the NRA president I guess because of his age but I beleive he has been given the honorary title of lifetime president.As an actor I enjoyed his movies but I thought he really excelled as the NRA president.In reading the speech I found out he was also involved in the Civil Rights movement in the early 1960's something I didn't know.

Even JFK a later forefatherseemed to realize this.I'm going to put in a speech by someone I consider a patriot.Not all will & it will probably draw some fire.If it draws too much I will have this post deleted or remove the speech by modifying.I can only delete from the dial-up section myself. Speech by National Rifle Association First Vice President Charlton Heston Delivered at the Free Congress Foundation's 20th Anniversary Gala December 7, 1997 I like it when the party of Lincoln honors our free heritage. This nation has been blessed by the minds and mettle of many good people, and indeed Abe was among the best. A man of great moral character... a trait often lacking among our leaders. This is disturbing, but not without remedy. One good election can correct such ills. Above all, I hope those of us gathered here tonight have more in common with Mr. Lincoln than just party affiliation. Better that we grasp a common vision than simply wear the cloak. Even our President pretends to be a conservative when it suits him. We must be more than that. I know, I know... it is not easy. Imagine being point man for the National Rifle Association, preserving the right to keep and bear arms. Well, I ran for office, I was elected, and now I serve... as a moving target for pundits who've called me everything from "ridiculous" and "duped" to a "brain-injured, senile, crazy old man." Well, I guess that goes with the territory. But as I've stood in the cross hairs of those who aim at Second Amendment freedom, I've realized that guns are not the only issue, and I am not the only target. It is much, much bigger than that—which is what I want to talk to you about. I have come to realize that a cultural war is raging across our land... storming our values, assaulting our freedoms, killing our self-confidence in who we are and what we believe, where we come from. How many of you here own a gun? A show of hands? How many own two or more guns? Thank you. I wonder—how many of you in this room own guns but chose not to raise your hand? How many of you considered revealing your conviction about a constitutional right, but then thought better of it? Then you are a victim of the cultural war. You are a casualty of the cultural warfare being waged against traditional American freedom of beliefs and ideas. Now maybe you don't care one way or the other about owning a gun. But I could've asked for a show of hands on Pentecostal Christians, or pro-lifers, or right-to-workers, or Promise Keepers, or school voucher-ers, and the result would be the same. What if the same question were asked at your PTA meeting? Would you raise your hand if Dan Rather were in the back of the room there with a film crew? See? Good. Still, if you didn't, you have been assaulted and robbed of the courage of your convictions. Your pride in who you are, and what you believe, has been ridiculed, ransacked, plundered. It may be a war without bullet or bloodshed, but with just as much liberty lost: You and your country are less free. And you are not inconsequential people! You in this room, whom many would say are among the most powerful people on earth, you are shamed into silence! Because you embrace a view at odds with the cultural warlords. If that is the outcome of cultural war, and you are the victims, I can only ask the gravely obvious question: What'll become of the right itself? Or other rights not deemed acceptable by the thought police? What other truth in your heart will you disavow with your hand? I remember when European Jews feared to admit their faith. The Nazis forced them to wear six-pointed yellow stars sewn on their chests as identity badges. It worked. So—what color star will they pin on our coats? How will the self-styled elite tag us? There may not be a Gestapo officer on every street corner yet, but the influence on our culture is just as pervasive. Now, I am not really here to talk about the Second Amendment or the NRA, but the gun issue clearly brings into focus the war that's going on. Rank-and-file Americans wake up every morning, increasingly bewildered and confused at why their views make them lesser citizens. After enough breakfast-table TV promos hyping tattooed sex-slaves on the next Rikki Lake show, enough gun-glutted movies and tabloid talk shows, enough revisionist history books and prime-time ridicule of religion, enough of the TV anchor who cocks her pretty head, clucks her tongue and sighs about guns causing crime and finally the message gets through: Heaven help the God-fearing, law-abiding, Caucasian, middle class, Protestant, or—even worse—Evangelical Christian, Midwest, or Southern, or—even worse—rural, apparently straight, or—even worse—admittedly heterosexual, gun-owning or—even worse—NRA-card-carrying, average working stiff, or—even worse—male working stiff, because not only don't you count, you're a downright obstacle to social progress. Your tax dollars may be just as delightfully green as you hand them over, but your voice requires a lower decibel level, your opinion is less enlightened, your media access is insignificant, and frankly mister, you need to wake up, wise up and learn a little something about your new America...in fact, why don't you just sit down and shut up? That's why you don't raise your hand. That's how cultural war works. And you are losing. That's what happens when a generation of media, educators, entertainers and politicians, led by a willing president, decide the America they were born into isn't good enough any more. So they contrive to change it through the cultural warfare of class distinction. Ask the Romans if powerful nations have ever fallen as a result of cultural division. There are ruins around the world that were once the smug centers of small-minded, arrogant elitism. It appears that rather than evaporate in the flash of a split atom, we may succumb to a divided culture. Although my years are long, I was not on hand to help pen the Bill of Rights. And popular assumptions aside, the same goes for the Ten Commandments. Yet as an American and as a man who believes in God's almighty power, I treasure both. The Constitution was handed down to guide us by a bunch of those wise old dead white guys who invented this country. Now, some flinch when I say that. Why? It's true...they were white guys. So were most of the guys who died in Lincoln's name opposing slavery in the 1860s. So why should I be ashamed of white guys? Why is "Hispanic pride" or "black pride" a good thing, while "white pride" conjures up shaved heads and white hoods? Why was the Million Man March on Washington celebrated in the media as progress, while the Promise Keepers March on Washington was greeted with suspicion and ridicule? I'll tell you why: Cultural warfare. Now, Chuck Heston can get away with saying I'm proud of those wise old dead white guys because Jesse Jackson and Louie Farrakhan know I fought in their cultural war. I was one of the first white soldiers in the civil rights movement in 1961, long before it was fashionable in Hollywood—believe me—or in Washington for that matter. In 1963 I marched on Washington with Dr. Martin Luther King to uphold the Bill of Rights. I'm very proud of that. As vice-president of the NRA I am doing the same thing. But you don't see many other Hollywood luminaries speaking out on this one, do you? It's not because there aren't any. It's because they can't afford the heat. They dare not speak up for fear of CNN or the IRS or SAG or the ATF or NBC or even W-J-C. It saps the strength of our country when the personal price is simply too high to stand up for what you believe in. Today, speaking with the courage of your conviction can be so costly, the price of principle so high, that legislators won't lead so citizens can't follow, and so there is no army to fight back. That's cultural warfare. For instance: It's plain that our Constitution guarantees law-abiding citizens the right to own a firearm. But if I stand up and say so, why does the media assault me with such a slashing, sinister brand of derision filled with hate? Because Bill Clinton's cultural warriors want a penitent cleansing of firearms, as if millions of lawful gun owners should genuflect in shame and seek absolution by surrendering their guns. That's what is now literally happening in England and Australia, of course. Lines—long lines—of submissive citizens, threatened with imprisonment, are bitterly, reluctantly surrendering family heirlooms, guns that won their freedom, to the blast furnace. If that fact doesn't unsettle you, then you are already anesthetized, a ready victim of the cultural war. You know, I think, that I stand first in line in defense of free speech. But those who speak against the perverted and profane should be given as much due as those who profit by it. You also know I welcome cultural diversity. But those who choose to live on the fringe should not tear apart the seams that secure the fabric of our society. Now I've earned a fine and rewarding living in the motion picture industry, yet increasingly I find myself embarrassed by the dearth of conscience that drives the world's most influential art form. And I'm an example of what a lonely undertaking that can be. Nobody opposed the obscene rapper Ice-T until I stood at Time-Warner's stockholders meeting and was ridiculed by its president for wanting to take the floor to read Ice-T's lyrics. Since I held several hundred shares of stock he had no choice, though the media were barred. I read those lyrics to a stunned audience of average American people—the stockholders—who were shocked at the lyrics that advocating killing cops, sexually abusing women, and raping the nieces of our Vice-President. True, the good guys won that time though: Time-Warner fired Ice-T. But on the other hand, I find my blood pressure rising when Clinton's cultural shock troops participate in homosexual-rights fund-raisers but boycott gun-rights fund-raisers... and then claim it's time to place homosexual men in tents with Boy Scouts, and suggest that sperm donor babies born into lesbian relationships are somehow better served and more loved. Such demands have nothing to do with equality. They're about the currency of cultural war—money and votes—and the Clinton camp will let anyone in the tent if there's a donkey on his hat, or a check in the mail or some yen in the fortune cookie. Mainstream America is depending on you—counting on you—to draw your sword and fight for them. These people have precious little time or resources to battle misguided Cinderella attitudes, the fringe propaganda of the homosexual coalition, the feminists who preach that it's a divine duty for women to hate men, blacks who raise a militant fist with one hand while they seek preference with the other, and all the New-Age apologists for juvenile crime, who see roving gangs as a means of youthful expression, sex as a means of adolescent merchandising, violence as a form of entertainment for impressionable minds, and gun bans as a means to lord-knows-what. We've reached that point in time when our national social policy originates on Oprah. I say it's time to pull the plug. Americans should not have to go to war every morning for their values. They already go to war for their families. They fight to hold down a job, raise responsible kids, make their payments, keep gas in the car, put food on the table and clothes on their backs, and still save a little for their final days in dignity. They prefer the America they built - where you could pray without feeling naive, love without being kinky, sing without profanity, be white without feeling guilty, own a gun without shame, and raise your hand without apology. They are the critical masses who find themselves under siege and are long for you to get some guts, stand on principle and lead them to victory in this cultural war. Now all this sounds a little Mosaic, the punch-line of my sermon is as elementary as the Golden Rule. In a cultural war, triumph belongs to those who arm themselves with pride in who they are and then do the right thing. Not the most expedient thing, not the politically correct thing, not what'll sell, but the right thing. And you know what? Everybody already knows what the right thing is. You, and I, President Clinton, even Ice-T, we all know. It's easy. You say wait a minute, you take a long look in the mirror, then into the eyes of your kids, your grandchildren, and you'll know what's right. Don't run for cover when the cultural cannons roar. Remember who you are and what you believe, and then raise your hand, stand up, and speak out. Don't be shamed or startled into lockstep conformity by seemingly powerful people. The maintenance of a free nation is a long, slow, steady process. And it is in your hands. Yes, we can have rules and still have rebels—that's democracy. But as leaders you must—we must—do as Lincoln would do, confronted with the stench of cultural war: Do what's right. As Mr. Lincoln said, "With firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us finish the work we are in... and then we shall save our country." Defeat the criminals and their apologists, oust the biased and bigoted, endure the undisciplined and unprincipled, but disavow the self-appointed social engineers whose relentless arrogance fuels this vicious war against so much we hold so dear. Do not yield, do not divide, do not call a truce. Be fair, but fight back. It's the same blueprint our founding fathers left to guide us. Our enemies see it as the senile prattle of an archaic society. I still honor it as the United States Constitution, and that timeless document we call the Bill of Rights. Freedom is our fortune and honor is our saving grace. <hr> <edit> justification of text

When a government has ceased to protect the lives, liberty, and property of the people ... and ... becomes an instrument in the hands of evil rulers for their oppression ... it is a ... sacred obligation to their posterity to abolish such government and create another in its stead. -- Sam Houston I have a right to nothing which another has a right to take away -- Thomas Jefferson Today, we need a nation of Minutemen, citizens who are not only prepared to take arms, but citizens who regard the preservation of freedom as the basic purpose of their daily life and who are willing to consciously work and sacrifice for that freedom. -- John F. Kennedy

Tell us what you did to fix it.

disturbed ;I haven't studied the economics like you have but I know the USA has the largest national debt.This supports what I have said before.The USA is the poorest country on Earth.So why does everyone always have their handout to the USA for money,physical help during disaster.sometimes military help ,etc.Why do so many want to imigrate here I guess to help us pay the debt. If the USA does owe it all to the Rockefellers the solution is simple burn all the Rockefellers at the stake .They are in the USA ;no heirs; debt eliminated .Problem solved. Personally I like some political debate between the tech & internet topics.Don't mind some religious discussion either.If a topic flames then it is removed.

I agree with ArcticWolf on the BIOS.This is your PC settings before it loads Windows or whatever OS you have. So bascally does your BIOS or system configuration show your IDE HD ? This should have all HD's in the list:as well as your CD/ROM,DVD,& Floppy if you have all of these.If it doesn't there should be a setting to add the IDE HD.

The only defense for Bush I can think of he doesn't appear to be smart enough.But the stupid could be an act.It's hard to beleive a conspiracy by someone you consider stupid. I do love to stir up the debate. I do want to add the victims of 911 including the soldiers killed or wounded in Iraq have my sincere sympathy. Btw:I thought I recognized the commondreams site.Here is another link. http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0606-29.htm The topic it was in has been removed.

I read the article very informative.The first link is mostly what I read.I have dial-up so I didn't check the videos available.Same reason I didn't do the DL of the second link.The third one had a lot of links What I'm putting from here is MY OPINION.The information in the link just confirms what I already beleived.The Bush administration orchestrated the 911 disaster. Why?To make Americans mad enough to accept a war against Iraq.Even when most of the terrorists were Saudi Arabians.This only makes some difference since they were just there to support it was a terrorist attack. I think the real agenda was Bush & Saudi Arabia wanted to get rid of Sadam.Saudi Arabia feared Sadam might have eventually taken over the Middle East.The Bush family has major money tied up in Saudi oil. So Bush was looking out for his business not Americas.He or his business advisors realized this would drive up the price of oil.Making petroleum companies a lot of money. Chaney the vice-president was involved with Haliburton which has made a lot of money from the war.So have other munitions companies. War is big business & always stimulates the economy at taxpayer expense. Bush places no value on the lives of average Americans or the soldiers he sends into war.You will note his daughters are not in the military much less in Iraq. I sure Bushes service record has been cleaned up .So it no longer shows him not really serving.Basically being AWOL .This should have stopped him from even being President. Then he made sure he was elected the first time even if it took being appointed by the Supreme Court instead of really elected.If he was able to do this when he wasn't even President what was he able to do by the second election.Probably able to fix it a lot better. I think Gore backed down on the election because his & his families life was threatened. I hope posting this doesn't have the feds busting down my door.

Guess I'll get on my soap box some more.Unless someone wants to say "Damn cholla get off your soap box" I also beleive population control would be good for the USA .I would like to see us take it down to about 20 million people.Think about what this would do to the petroleum dependence on other countries. Some wouldn't think this would be enough to protect the USA but new missle silos,some Star wars satellites & being willing to use them we could defend the USA. I still think it's crazy that the USA has spent trillions on building nuclear weapons but only used 2 bombs in war.Both in the same war & almost at the same time.Then the USA demolishs missle silos.What a waste.This is the government which seems to act independently of what the majority of citizens want.When we the people get tired enough of it I guess there will be the Second American Revolution.

As I have posted before I beleive in protectionism & would eliminate all outsourcing.I would stop all imagration to the USA.In other words put a "No Vacancy" sign on the Statue of Liberty.If people in other countries want their country like the USA let them fight & build their country like my ancestors did in the USA.The reason the USA is like it is is because my ancestors gave sweat & blood to make it this way. I think they are rolling over in their graves at the way the USA is becoming.Sold out by big business & the government for money.

Indestructable;I liked the infinite pie attack one.Must be the Three Stooges fan in me. ArcticWolf;I found what Swimmer did Maxtor is now the support for Quantum.I didn't find your exact model though.Some were close so you might check.

Yeah it's cool to see if members can get the old hardware fired up again. EWO ;do you have this online?

This MS article may help.It also links to how to repair IE the instructions are for IE5 but will work for IE6. http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=216583 Basically you use your Add/Remove in Control Panel .Select Remove for your current version of IE.It will give you the option to repair it.Select to repair IE. If there is an admistrator password & you are not the administrator you can be denied access to Internet Options.

Van ;Thats plenty of send window for my dial-up to receive since my rwin is set at 11680.I have Windows ME so this is a MSS based rwin.

Van this is from my dialup to the second test.I let it load 1.71 MB & it was pretty stable at 4.38KB/sec

FaT_PHiL;I can post a zip file in Additional Options when posting.Do you have zip file in your additional option list?The reason I ask is I don't remember if it was an option before I was made a mod. If you do since you have already looked up the information can you make a zip file?If you can just post it for CaptainSauce .

alan8187;It's possible its a bad power cord. Or when you moved your PC it might have pulled on the terminals where the power cord plugs into the power supply.Unplug the power cord & see if these feel loose.I don't know your level of technecal ability & much more might get you fried if you don't know what you are doing.

InfiniteZero ;I have Windows ME & have had 98SE.I haven't had XP but I have read several things about it. In the Windows XP you loaded in the Windows folder is their an Options.CABS or Install file ?In Windows ME this is where you find the windows loaded drivers.If you have these folders & they have driver files in them or if you can find driver file elsewhere in Windows.This is where you want to go with the have disk. Like in have disk location: C:WindowsOptionsCABS or C:WindowsInf. To see these files you may have to open C:Windows select the tools pulldown Folder Options View then check something show hidden files & folders then uncheck hide file extensions. I hope this helps like I said there are others with XP that should be more help.The 3 G partition seems a little small for XP but if you can run it with other software you will load good. Just a question how much of the 33 G partition is used?

VanBuren ;Hers the results from dial-up in Texas.I did the testmy DL to your mirror also.Pretty close. :::.. Download Stats ..::: Connection is:: 37 Kbps about 0 Mbps (tested with 1075 kB) Download Speed is:: 4 kB/s Tested From:: http://hem.bredband.net Test Time:: 2006/03/28 - 1:58pm Bottom Line:: 1X faster than 56K 1MB Download in 256 sec Tested from a 1075 kB file and took 239.7 seconds to complete Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98; Win 9x 4.90) Diagnosis: May need help : running at only 4.11 % of your hosts average (nts-online.net) Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-1A689PBQ3

EWO;The VIC20 &C-64 is about as far as i remember except for pictures of the old punch card systems.I did work for a place that had the big tape reels in the main offices .I worked at their sales location but ocassionally took stuff to the main office so I saw their big air conditioned computer room.This was around 1979.Like I said I have 2 C-64 still alive but no modem.I think CA3LE's VIC20 is still alive too.But theres no way these could login to testmy.CA3LE can correct me if I'm wrong.Still it would be interesting to see the oldest & smallest CPU computers that could login.

ArcticWolf ;It still is a lot faster than my dial-up.

ArcticWolf; I'm deleting this topic as requested.Even if it's not a bad topic. I guess I can't delete from this part of the forum.So I will leave it to a mod that can.cholla

richcornucopia ;Probably would be best to go with the manufacturers replacement this time.If it continues to be a problem there are some automotive barbed fittings made for fuel lines.Automotive parts stores do not have the best selection of these.But might if you have a good one,Otherwise try a business that makes custom hoses like for air conditioners or hydraulic lines. Another possibility there are several sizes of PVC pipe with some of it & the cement for PVC pipe you might be able to repair the old one.

What he needs is a picture of a woman with a big butt.