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<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" width="95%" align="center"> <tr bgcolor="#234c6f"><td> <table border="0" width="100%" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="1"> <tr bgcolor="#234c6f"> <td colspan="2" align="left"> <font size="3" color="#FFFFFF" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>T O P I C ��� R E V I E W</b> </font></td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#A3B9CC"> <td valign="top" width="18%"> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>Chimaera</b> </font></td> <td width="82%"> <font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <img src="https://flare.solareclipse.net/posticon.gif" border="0" alt=" - " /> posted <script language="JavaScript1.3" type="text/javascript"> document.write(timestamp(new Date(1999,10,12,21,12,0), dfrm, tfrm, 0, 0, 0, 0)); </script><noscript><span class="dateformat-0">November 12, 1999</span> <span class="timeformat-0">09:12 PM</span></noscript><hr /> </font> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> A couple of high profile mistakes have made the news recently, sometimes you really have to shake your head and wonder who's running the place <IMG SRC="http://flare.solareclipse.net/smile.gif"><P>1. The Mars Climate Orbiter recently disappeared, apparently it dropped out of orbit after travelling for nine months through space, burning up in the Martian atmosphere. The problem? NASA was sending instructions to the probe for its rocket firings in the old English units of feet per second, but the probe's computers were calibrated in metric units, and interpreting the instructions as Newtons/second. Result: $125 million shooting star that nobody saw.<P>2. A guy goes to a hockey game at Air Canada place in Toronto and leaves his briefcase in the backseat of his car. Some drug addicts looking for money for their next fix break into his car and steal the briefcase. Problem: This guy happens to work for CSIS (Canadian Security and Intelligence Service), and this briefcase happens to contain top secret papers detailing planned CSIS operations for the next year. Apparently the addicts, not finding any money, threw the briefcase into a dumpster, which was later emptied, briefcase and all. And the politicians in Ottawa wonder why the Americans always hesitate before sharing information with them.<P>Just goes to prove what I was told when I studying engineering at university: If you develop an idiot proof device, the world will develop a better idiot <IMG SRC="http://flare.solareclipse.net/smile.gif"><P>------------------<BR>"But, it was so artistically done."<BR>-Grand Admiral Thrawn<P><BR> <br /> </font> </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#E5EAEF"> <td valign="top" width="18%"> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>Kosh</b> <br /><small>Member # 167</small> </font></td> <td width="82%"> <font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <img src="https://flare.solareclipse.net/posticon.gif" border="0" alt=" - " /> posted <script language="JavaScript1.3" type="text/javascript"> document.write(timestamp(new Date(1999,10,15,8,56,0), dfrm, tfrm, 0, 0, 0, 0)); </script><noscript><span class="dateformat-0">November 15, 1999</span> <span class="timeformat-0">08:56 AM</span></noscript><hr /> </font> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> I always carry a umbrella, against IPD's.<P>------------------<BR><B>Fool of a Took, throw yourself in next time!!<BR> Gandalf </B><P><BR> <br /> </font> </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#A3B9CC"> <td valign="top" width="18%"> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>AndrewR</b> <br /><small>Member # 44</small> </font></td> <td width="82%"> <font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <img src="https://flare.solareclipse.net/posticon.gif" border="0" alt=" - " /> posted <script language="JavaScript1.3" type="text/javascript"> document.write(timestamp(new Date(1999,10,15,9,44,0), dfrm, tfrm, 0, 0, 0, 0)); </script><noscript><span class="dateformat-0">November 15, 1999</span> <span class="timeformat-0">09:44 AM</span></noscript><hr /> </font> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> What about Australia beating Cuba in the baseball LOL! haaaaa hahaha hahaha sucked in - aren't the US supposed to be the best at this game!?!<P>------------------<BR> Ralph: Um, Miss Hoover? There's a dog in the vent.<BR>Hoover: Ralph, remember the time you said Snagglepuss was outside?<BR> Ralph: He was going to the bathroom. <br /> </font> </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#E5EAEF"> <td valign="top" width="18%"> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>Kosh</b> <br /><small>Member # 167</small> </font></td> <td width="82%"> <font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <img src="https://flare.solareclipse.net/posticon.gif" border="0" alt=" - " /> posted <script language="JavaScript1.3" type="text/javascript"> document.write(timestamp(new Date(1999,10,15,13,50,0), dfrm, tfrm, 0, 0, 0, 0)); </script><noscript><span class="dateformat-0">November 15, 1999</span> <span class="timeformat-0">01:50 PM</span></noscript><hr /> </font> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> The Cubans, and a few other Island nations play a lot of Baseball, also Nipon.<P>------------------<BR><B>Fool of a Took, throw yourself in next time!!<BR> Gandalf </B><P><BR> <br /> </font> </td></tr> </table></td></tr></table> <br /> <br />
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