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CygnusX-1
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Tue Sep 14, 2004 7:22 am Post subject:
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I am in the market for a 2nd VCR (I refuse to pay to record TV) with
the following features:
1. Hi-Fi VHS
2. S-video
3. SP-LP-SLP support
4. Less than $120
Please post your recommendations. TIA
Cygnus
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ric
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Tue Sep 14, 2004 9:08 am Post subject:
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CygnusX-1 wrote:
| Quote: | I am in the market for a 2nd VCR (I refuse to pay to record TV) with
the following features:
1. Hi-Fi VHS
2. S-video
3. SP-LP-SLP support
4. Less than $120
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If you want S-video and Hi-Fi VHS, your only choice is SVHS. For less
than $120 ?? Maybe a low end JVC, or a Mitsubishi HS-U748/HS-U749. IMO,
stay away from the low end JVC. |
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Vincent Poy
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Tue Sep 14, 2004 3:22 pm Post subject:
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ric <nospam@home.com> wrote in news:41467CB1.9C31CA83@home.com:
| Quote: | CygnusX-1 wrote:
I am in the market for a 2nd VCR (I refuse to pay to record TV) with
the following features:
1. Hi-Fi VHS
2. S-video
3. SP-LP-SLP support
4. Less than $120
If you want S-video and Hi-Fi VHS, your only choice is SVHS. For less
than $120 ?? Maybe a low end JVC, or a Mitsubishi HS-U748/HS-U749. IMO,
stay away from the low end JVC.
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I don't think either of those has LP in item #3. Everything is really low-
end these days since there is no JVC HRS-8000U or Mitsubishi HS-U70/80.
Cheers,
Vince |
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LASERandDVDfan
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Tue Sep 14, 2004 7:22 pm Post subject:
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| Quote: | I am in the market for a 2nd VCR (I refuse to pay to record TV) with
the following features:
1. Hi-Fi VHS
2. S-video
3. SP-LP-SLP support
4. Less than $120
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Well, your criteria just eliminated every single S-VHS deck around.
LP speed is only for VHS. Although, there have been S-VHS decks that can
record in LP but only in VHS mode. S-VHS by itself, however, records only in
SP and EP.
Also, almost all S-VHS VCRs made today only have playback support for LP as
most S-VHS decks for the consumer market are usually made by JVC and
Mitsubishi, which only has LP playback support.
Besides, a decent S-VHS VCR will set you back more than $120. - Reinhart |
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ric
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Tue Sep 14, 2004 10:26 pm Post subject:
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Vincent Poy wrote:
| Quote: | 1. Hi-Fi VHS
2. S-video
3. SP-LP-SLP support
4. Less than $120
If you want S-video and Hi-Fi VHS, your only choice is SVHS. For less
than $120 ?? Maybe a low end JVC, or a Mitsubishi HS-U748/HS-U749. IMO,
stay away from the low end JVC.
I don't think either of those has LP in item #3. Everything is really low-
end these days since there is no JVC HRS-8000U or Mitsubishi HS-U70/80.
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A) The OP didn't specify whether his LP support wish was a record/play
or only a play specification.
B) Neither the HRS-8000U nor the HS-U70/80 (which was blown away PQ wise
by the U795) would come even close to the OPs #4 demand of < $120 (unless
he was able to find a used one for that price.) |
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ric
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Tue Sep 14, 2004 10:31 pm Post subject:
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LASERandDVDfan wrote:
| Quote: | I am in the market for a 2nd VCR (I refuse to pay to record TV) with
the following features:
1. Hi-Fi VHS
2. S-video
3. SP-LP-SLP support
4. Less than $120
Well, your criteria just eliminated every single S-VHS deck around.
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Yet criteria #1 and #2 narrowed it to SVHS only. <g> |
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CygnusX-1
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Tue Sep 14, 2004 11:14 pm Post subject:
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Oh so everything is low end nowadays? I was wondering why the prices
of VCRs are so cheap now. I checked best buy and circuit city web
sites and the highest VCR price was about $90. I thought Panasonic
had a model that supported LP..?
Cygnus
The Bringer of Balance
Vincent Poy <vince@WURLDLINK.NET.noSPAM> wrote in message
| Quote: | I don't think either of those has LP in item #3. Everything is really low-
end these days since there is no JVC HRS-8000U or Mitsubishi HS-U70/80.
Cheers,
Vince |
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gaffo
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Wed Sep 15, 2004 6:19 am Post subject:
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CygnusX-1 wrote:
| Quote: | Oh so everything is low end nowadays? I was wondering why the prices
of VCRs are so cheap now. I checked best buy and circuit city web
sites and the highest VCR price was about $90. I thought Panasonic
had a model that supported LP..?
Cygnus
The Bringer of Balance
Vincent Poy <vince@WURLDLINK.NET.noSPAM> wrote in message
I don't think either of those has LP in item #3. Everything is really low-
end these days since there is no JVC HRS-8000U or Mitsubishi HS-U70/80.
Cheers,
Vince
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My cousin had a Panasonic - very clean picture, low noise.
I have a Toshiba - noticably more sharper and cleaner picture than my GE
one.
MY Toshiba will playback SVHS fairly well - no it is not a SVHS
playback-able unit.
MY GE cannot playback my old SVHS tapes - not in a watchable way anyhow.
This tells me that the Toshiba has a higher bandwidth and thus a higer
rez capability over the GE.
My old 80's Mitsubishi had an excellent picture - better than my old RCA
SVHS (under VHS mode).
SO..............toshiba (my 1st recommendation), panasonic, mitsubishi
(GOOD)
GE, RCA (BAD).
my 2-cents.
BTW - the Toshiba has better tracking and can playback my 12 yr old 8-hr
HiFi audio recordings of copied CDs which I recorded using the old RCA
unit before it died years later.
My GE cannot hold the stereo track and the music drifts from mone to
stereo and back again.
Truth be known the GE VHS unit is a POS.
--
http://baltimorechronicle.com/041704reTreason.shtml
http://www.truthinaction.net/iraq/illegaljayne.htm
As nightfall does not come all at once, neither does oppression. In both
instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged.
And it is in such twilight that we all must be aware of change in the air
-- however slight -lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness.
Justice William O. Douglas, US Supreme Court (1939-75)
"It shows us that there were senior people in the Bush administration who
were seriously contemplating the use of torture, and trying to figure out
whether there were any legal loopholes that might allow them to commit
criminal acts, They seem to be putting forward a theory that the president
in wartime can essentially do what he wants regardless of what the law
may say,"
Tom Malinowski of Human Rights Watch - commenting upon Defense
Department Lawyer
Will Dunham's 56-page legalization of torture memo.
If you add all of those up, you should have a conservative rebellion against
the giant corporation in the White House masquerading as a human being named
George W. Bush. Just as progressives have been abandoned by the corporate
Democrats and told, "You got nowhere to go other than to stay home or
vote for
the Democrats", this is the fate of the authentic conservatives in the
Republican Party.
Ralph Nader - June 2004 - The American Conservative Magazine
"But I believe in torture and I will torture you."
-An American soldier shares the joys of Democracy with
an Iraqi prisoner.
"My mother praises me for fighting the Americans. If we are killed,
our wives and mothers will rejoice that we died defending the
freedom of our country.
-Iraqi Mahdi fighter
"We were bleeding from 3 a.m. until sunrise, soon American soldiers came.
One of them kicked me to see if I was alive. I pretended I was dead
so he wouldn't kill me. The soldier was laughing, when Yousef cried,
the soldier said: "'No, stop,"
-Shihab, survivor of USSA bombing of Iraqi wedding.
"the absolute convergence of the neoconservatives with the Christian
Zionists
and the pro-Israel lobby, driving U.S. Mideast policy."
-Don Wagner, an evangelical South Carolina minister
"Bush, in Austin, criticized President Clinton's administration for
the Kosovo military action.'Victory means exit strategy, and it's important
for the president to explain to us what the exit strategy is,' Bush said."
Houston Chronicle 4/9/99
"Iraqis are sick of foreign people coming in their country and trying to
destabilize their country."
Washington, D.C., May 5, 2004
"The new administration seems to be paying no attention to the problem
of terrorism. What they will do is stagger along until there's a major
incident and then suddenly say, 'Oh my God, shouldn't we be organized
to deal with this?'"
- Paul Bremer, speaking to a McCormick Tribune Foundation conference
on terrorism in Wheaton, Ill. on Feb. 26, 2001.
"On Jan. 26, 1998, President Clinton received a letter imploring him to use
his State of the Union address to make removal of Saddam Hussein's regime
the "aim of American foreign policy" and to use military action because
"diplomacy is failing." Were Clinton to do that, the signers pledged, they
would "offer our full support in this difficult but necessary endeavor."
Signing the pledge were Elliott Abrams, Bill Bennett, John Bolton, Robert
Kagan, William Kristol, Richard Perle, Richard L. Armitage, Jeffrey
Bergner,
Paula Dobriansky, Francis Fukuyama, Zalmay Khalilzad, Peter W. Rodman,
William Schneider, Jr., Vin Weber, R. James Woolsey and Robert B. Zoellick,
Donald Rumsfeld and Paul Wolfowitz. Four years before 9/11, the neocons had
Baghdad on their minds."
-philip (usenet)
"I had better things to do in the 60s than fight in Vietnam,"
-Richard Cheney, Kerry critic.
"I hope they will understand that in order for this government to get up
and running
- to be effective - some of its sovereignty will have to be given
back, if I can put it that way,
or limited by them, It's sovereignty but [some] of that sovereignty they
are going to allow us to exercise
on their behalf and with their permission."
- Powell 4/27/04
"We're trying to explain how things are going, and they are going as they
are going," he said, adding: "Some things are going well and some things
obviously are not going well. You're going to have good days and bad days."
On the road to democracy, this "is one moment, and there will be other
moments. And there will be good moments and there will be less good
moments."
- Rumsfeld 4/6/04
"I also have this belief, strong belief, that freedom is not this
country's gift to the world; freedom is the Almighty's gift to
every man and woman in this world. And as the greatest power on
the face of the Earth, we have an obligation to help the spread
of freedom."
~ Bush the Crusader
RUSSERT: Are you prepared to lose?
BUSH: No, I'm not going to lose.
RUSSERT: If you did, what would you do?
BUSH: Well, I don't plan on losing. I've got a vision for what I want to
do for the country.
See, I know exactly where I want to lead.................And we got
changing times
here in America, too., 2/8/04
"And that's very important for, I think, the people to understand where
I'm coming from,
to know that this is a dangerous world. I wish it wasn't. I'm a war
president.
I make decisions here in the Oval Office in foreign policy matters with
war on my mind.
- pResident of the United State of America, 2/8/04
"Let's talk about the nuclear proposition for a minute. We know that
based on intelligence, that he has been very, very good at hiding
these kinds of efforts. He's had years to get good at it and we know
he has been absolutely devoted to trying to acquire nuclear weapons.
And we believe he has, in fact, reconstituted nuclear weapons."
- Vice President Dick Cheney, on "Meet the Press", 3/16/03
"I don't know anybody that I can think of who has contended that the
Iraqis had nuclear weapons."
- Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, 6/24/03
"I think in this case international law
stood in the way of doing the right thing (invading Iraq)."
- Richard Perle
"He (Saddam Hussein) has not developed any significant capability with
respect to weapons of mass destruction. He is unable to project
conventional power against his neighbours."
- Colin Powell February 24 2001
"We have been successful for the last ten years in keeping
him from developing those weapons and we will continue to be successful."
"He threatens not the United States."
"But I also thought that we had pretty
much removed his stings and frankly for ten years we really have."
'But what is interesting is that with the regime that has been in place
for the past ten years, I think a pretty good job has been done of
keeping him from breaking out and suddenly showing up one day and saying
"look what I got." He hasn't been able to do that.'
- Colin Powell February 26 2001 |
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GMAN
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Wed Sep 15, 2004 6:54 am Post subject:
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In article <wEN1d.20027$Fj7.16736@newssvr24.news.prodigy.com>, gaffo <gaffo@usenet.net> wrote:
| Quote: | CygnusX-1 wrote:
Oh so everything is low end nowadays? I was wondering why the prices
of VCRs are so cheap now. I checked best buy and circuit city web
sites and the highest VCR price was about $90. I thought Panasonic
had a model that supported LP..?
Cygnus
The Bringer of Balance
Vincent Poy <vince@WURLDLINK.NET.noSPAM> wrote in message
I don't think either of those has LP in item #3. Everything is really low-
end these days since there is no JVC HRS-8000U or Mitsubishi HS-U70/80.
Cheers,
Vince
My cousin had a Panasonic - very clean picture, low noise.
I have a Toshiba - noticably more sharper and cleaner picture than my GE
one.
MY Toshiba will playback SVHS fairly well - no it is not a SVHS
playback-able unit.
MY GE cannot playback my old SVHS tapes - not in a watchable way anyhow.
This tells me that the Toshiba has a higher bandwidth and thus a higer
rez capability over the GE.
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Not so, it has nothing to do with toshiba having a higher bandwidth. It has to
do with the fact that the toshiba has built into it what is called SQPB (Super
Quasi Play Back). The ability to playback SVHS video at standard vhs
resolution.
| Quote: |
My old 80's Mitsubishi had an excellent picture - better than my old RCA
SVHS (under VHS mode).
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Mitsubishi in general has almost always had a decent quality picture.
| Quote: |
SO..............toshiba (my 1st recommendation), panasonic, mitsubishi
(GOOD)
GE, RCA (BAD).
my 2-cents.
BTW - the Toshiba has better tracking and can playback my 12 yr old 8-hr
HiFi audio recordings of copied CDs which I recorded using the old RCA
unit before it died years later.
My GE cannot hold the stereo track and the music drifts from mone to
stereo and back again.
Truth be known the GE VHS unit is a POS.
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gaffo
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Thu Sep 16, 2004 5:26 am Post subject:
Re: Recommend VCR please |
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GMAN wrote:
| Quote: | In article <wEN1d.20027$Fj7.16736@newssvr24.news.prodigy.com>, gaffo <gaffo@usenet.net> wrote:
CygnusX-1 wrote:
Oh so everything is low end nowadays? I was wondering why the prices
of VCRs are so cheap now. I checked best buy and circuit city web
sites and the highest VCR price was about $90. I thought Panasonic
had a model that supported LP..?
Cygnus
The Bringer of Balance
Vincent Poy <vince@WURLDLINK.NET.noSPAM> wrote in message
I don't think either of those has LP in item #3. Everything is really low-
end these days since there is no JVC HRS-8000U or Mitsubishi HS-U70/80.
Cheers,
Vince
My cousin had a Panasonic - very clean picture, low noise.
I have a Toshiba - noticably more sharper and cleaner picture than my GE
one.
MY Toshiba will playback SVHS fairly well - no it is not a SVHS
playback-able unit.
MY GE cannot playback my old SVHS tapes - not in a watchable way anyhow.
This tells me that the Toshiba has a higher bandwidth and thus a higer
rez capability over the GE.
Not so, it has nothing to do with toshiba having a higher bandwidth. It has to
do with the fact that the toshiba has built into it what is called SQPB (Super
Quasi Play Back). The ability to playback SVHS video at standard vhs
resolution.
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My unit does not offer that feature.
Its playback watchable - but it is not clean. the usual white hot spots
tend to bleed in high contrast scenes
| Quote: | My old 80's Mitsubishi had an excellent picture - better than my old RCA
SVHS (under VHS mode).
Mitsubishi in general has almost always had a decent quality picture.
SO..............toshiba (my 1st recommendation), panasonic, mitsubishi
(GOOD)
GE, RCA (BAD).
my 2-cents.
BTW - the Toshiba has better tracking and can playback my 12 yr old 8-hr
HiFi audio recordings of copied CDs which I recorded using the old RCA
unit before it died years later.
My GE cannot hold the stereo track and the music drifts from mone to
stereo and back again.
Truth be known the GE VHS unit is a POS.
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--
http://baltimorechronicle.com/041704reTreason.shtml
http://www.truthinaction.net/iraq/illegaljayne.htm
As nightfall does not come all at once, neither does oppression. In both
instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged.
And it is in such twilight that we all must be aware of change in the air
-- however slight -lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness.
Justice William O. Douglas, US Supreme Court (1939-75)
"It shows us that there were senior people in the Bush administration who
were seriously contemplating the use of torture, and trying to figure out
whether there were any legal loopholes that might allow them to commit
criminal acts, They seem to be putting forward a theory that the president
in wartime can essentially do what he wants regardless of what the law
may say,"
Tom Malinowski of Human Rights Watch - commenting upon Defense
Department Lawyer
Will Dunham's 56-page legalization of torture memo.
If you add all of those up, you should have a conservative rebellion against
the giant corporation in the White House masquerading as a human being named
George W. Bush. Just as progressives have been abandoned by the corporate
Democrats and told, "You got nowhere to go other than to stay home or
vote for
the Democrats", this is the fate of the authentic conservatives in the
Republican Party.
Ralph Nader - June 2004 - The American Conservative Magazine
"But I believe in torture and I will torture you."
-An American soldier shares the joys of Democracy with
an Iraqi prisoner.
"My mother praises me for fighting the Americans. If we are killed,
our wives and mothers will rejoice that we died defending the
freedom of our country.
-Iraqi Mahdi fighter
"We were bleeding from 3 a.m. until sunrise, soon American soldiers came.
One of them kicked me to see if I was alive. I pretended I was dead
so he wouldn't kill me. The soldier was laughing, when Yousef cried,
the soldier said: "'No, stop,"
-Shihab, survivor of USSA bombing of Iraqi wedding.
"the absolute convergence of the neoconservatives with the Christian
Zionists
and the pro-Israel lobby, driving U.S. Mideast policy."
-Don Wagner, an evangelical South Carolina minister
"Bush, in Austin, criticized President Clinton's administration for
the Kosovo military action.'Victory means exit strategy, and it's important
for the president to explain to us what the exit strategy is,' Bush said."
Houston Chronicle 4/9/99
"Iraqis are sick of foreign people coming in their country and trying to
destabilize their country."
Washington, D.C., May 5, 2004
"The new administration seems to be paying no attention to the problem
of terrorism. What they will do is stagger along until there's a major
incident and then suddenly say, 'Oh my God, shouldn't we be organized
to deal with this?'"
- Paul Bremer, speaking to a McCormick Tribune Foundation conference
on terrorism in Wheaton, Ill. on Feb. 26, 2001.
"On Jan. 26, 1998, President Clinton received a letter imploring him to use
his State of the Union address to make removal of Saddam Hussein's regime
the "aim of American foreign policy" and to use military action because
"diplomacy is failing." Were Clinton to do that, the signers pledged, they
would "offer our full support in this difficult but necessary endeavor."
Signing the pledge were Elliott Abrams, Bill Bennett, John Bolton, Robert
Kagan, William Kristol, Richard Perle, Richard L. Armitage, Jeffrey
Bergner,
Paula Dobriansky, Francis Fukuyama, Zalmay Khalilzad, Peter W. Rodman,
William Schneider, Jr., Vin Weber, R. James Woolsey and Robert B. Zoellick,
Donald Rumsfeld and Paul Wolfowitz. Four years before 9/11, the neocons had
Baghdad on their minds."
-philip (usenet)
"I had better things to do in the 60s than fight in Vietnam,"
-Richard Cheney, Kerry critic.
"I hope they will understand that in order for this government to get up
and running
- to be effective - some of its sovereignty will have to be given
back, if I can put it that way,
or limited by them, It's sovereignty but [some] of that sovereignty they
are going to allow us to exercise
on their behalf and with their permission."
- Powell 4/27/04
"We're trying to explain how things are going, and they are going as they
are going," he said, adding: "Some things are going well and some things
obviously are not going well. You're going to have good days and bad days."
On the road to democracy, this "is one moment, and there will be other
moments. And there will be good moments and there will be less good
moments."
- Rumsfeld 4/6/04
"I also have this belief, strong belief, that freedom is not this
country's gift to the world; freedom is the Almighty's gift to
every man and woman in this world. And as the greatest power on
the face of the Earth, we have an obligation to help the spread
of freedom."
~ Bush the Crusader
RUSSERT: Are you prepared to lose?
BUSH: No, I'm not going to lose.
RUSSERT: If you did, what would you do?
BUSH: Well, I don't plan on losing. I've got a vision for what I want to
do for the country.
See, I know exactly where I want to lead.................And we got
changing times
here in America, too., 2/8/04
"And that's very important for, I think, the people to understand where
I'm coming from,
to know that this is a dangerous world. I wish it wasn't. I'm a war
president.
I make decisions here in the Oval Office in foreign policy matters with
war on my mind.
- pResident of the United State of America, 2/8/04
"Let's talk about the nuclear proposition for a minute. We know that
based on intelligence, that he has been very, very good at hiding
these kinds of efforts. He's had years to get good at it and we know
he has been absolutely devoted to trying to acquire nuclear weapons.
And we believe he has, in fact, reconstituted nuclear weapons."
- Vice President Dick Cheney, on "Meet the Press", 3/16/03
"I don't know anybody that I can think of who has contended that the
Iraqis had nuclear weapons."
- Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, 6/24/03
"I think in this case international law
stood in the way of doing the right thing (invading Iraq)."
- Richard Perle
"He (Saddam Hussein) has not developed any significant capability with
respect to weapons of mass destruction. He is unable to project
conventional power against his neighbours."
- Colin Powell February 24 2001
"We have been successful for the last ten years in keeping
him from developing those weapons and we will continue to be successful."
"He threatens not the United States."
"But I also thought that we had pretty
much removed his stings and frankly for ten years we really have."
'But what is interesting is that with the regime that has been in place
for the past ten years, I think a pretty good job has been done of
keeping him from breaking out and suddenly showing up one day and saying
"look what I got." He hasn't been able to do that.'
- Colin Powell February 26 2001 |
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ric wrote:
sorry I'm duty bound as an American citizen. I'm sorry if I offend.
After Nov2 - when Liberty dies/lives. either way my sig will go.
I'm morally obligated to keep it in defence of Liberty, our Constitution
and American Ideals until then.
peace.
--
http://baltimorechronicle.com/041704reTreason.shtml
http://www.truthinaction.net/iraq/illegaljayne.htm
As nightfall does not come all at once, neither does oppression. In both
instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged.
And it is in such twilight that we all must be aware of change in the air
-- however slight -lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness.
Justice William O. Douglas, US Supreme Court (1939-75)
"It shows us that there were senior people in the Bush administration who
were seriously contemplating the use of torture, and trying to figure out
whether there were any legal loopholes that might allow them to commit
criminal acts, They seem to be putting forward a theory that the president
in wartime can essentially do what he wants regardless of what the law
may say,"
Tom Malinowski of Human Rights Watch - commenting upon Defense
Department Lawyer
Will Dunham's 56-page legalization of torture memo.
If you add all of those up, you should have a conservative rebellion against
the giant corporation in the White House masquerading as a human being named
George W. Bush. Just as progressives have been abandoned by the corporate
Democrats and told, "You got nowhere to go other than to stay home or
vote for
the Democrats", this is the fate of the authentic conservatives in the
Republican Party.
Ralph Nader - June 2004 - The American Conservative Magazine
"But I believe in torture and I will torture you."
-An American soldier shares the joys of Democracy with
an Iraqi prisoner.
"My mother praises me for fighting the Americans. If we are killed,
our wives and mothers will rejoice that we died defending the
freedom of our country.
-Iraqi Mahdi fighter
"We were bleeding from 3 a.m. until sunrise, soon American soldiers came.
One of them kicked me to see if I was alive. I pretended I was dead
so he wouldn't kill me. The soldier was laughing, when Yousef cried,
the soldier said: "'No, stop,"
-Shihab, survivor of USSA bombing of Iraqi wedding.
"the absolute convergence of the neoconservatives with the Christian
Zionists
and the pro-Israel lobby, driving U.S. Mideast policy."
-Don Wagner, an evangelical South Carolina minister
"Bush, in Austin, criticized President Clinton's administration for
the Kosovo military action.'Victory means exit strategy, and it's important
for the president to explain to us what the exit strategy is,' Bush said."
Houston Chronicle 4/9/99
"Iraqis are sick of foreign people coming in their country and trying to
destabilize their country."
Washington, D.C., May 5, 2004
"The new administration seems to be paying no attention to the problem
of terrorism. What they will do is stagger along until there's a major
incident and then suddenly say, 'Oh my God, shouldn't we be organized
to deal with this?'"
- Paul Bremer, speaking to a McCormick Tribune Foundation conference
on terrorism in Wheaton, Ill. on Feb. 26, 2001.
"On Jan. 26, 1998, President Clinton received a letter imploring him to use
his State of the Union address to make removal of Saddam Hussein's regime
the "aim of American foreign policy" and to use military action because
"diplomacy is failing." Were Clinton to do that, the signers pledged, they
would "offer our full support in this difficult but necessary endeavor."
Signing the pledge were Elliott Abrams, Bill Bennett, John Bolton, Robert
Kagan, William Kristol, Richard Perle, Richard L. Armitage, Jeffrey
Bergner,
Paula Dobriansky, Francis Fukuyama, Zalmay Khalilzad, Peter W. Rodman,
William Schneider, Jr., Vin Weber, R. James Woolsey and Robert B. Zoellick,
Donald Rumsfeld and Paul Wolfowitz. Four years before 9/11, the neocons had
Baghdad on their minds."
-philip (usenet)
"I had better things to do in the 60s than fight in Vietnam,"
-Richard Cheney, Kerry critic.
"I hope they will understand that in order for this government to get up
and running
- to be effective - some of its sovereignty will have to be given
back, if I can put it that way,
or limited by them, It's sovereignty but [some] of that sovereignty they
are going to allow us to exercise
on their behalf and with their permission."
- Powell 4/27/04
"We're trying to explain how things are going, and they are going as they
are going," he said, adding: "Some things are going well and some things
obviously are not going well. You're going to have good days and bad days."
On the road to democracy, this "is one moment, and there will be other
moments. And there will be good moments and there will be less good
moments."
- Rumsfeld 4/6/04
"I also have this belief, strong belief, that freedom is not this
country's gift to the world; freedom is the Almighty's gift to
every man and woman in this world. And as the greatest power on
the face of the Earth, we have an obligation to help the spread
of freedom."
~ Bush the Crusader
RUSSERT: Are you prepared to lose?
BUSH: No, I'm not going to lose.
RUSSERT: If you did, what would you do?
BUSH: Well, I don't plan on losing. I've got a vision for what I want to
do for the country.
See, I know exactly where I want to lead.................And we got
changing times
here in America, too., 2/8/04
"And that's very important for, I think, the people to understand where
I'm coming from,
to know that this is a dangerous world. I wish it wasn't. I'm a war
president.
I make decisions here in the Oval Office in foreign policy matters with
war on my mind.
- pResident of the United State of America, 2/8/04
"Let's talk about the nuclear proposition for a minute. We know that
based on intelligence, that he has been very, very good at hiding
these kinds of efforts. He's had years to get good at it and we know
he has been absolutely devoted to trying to acquire nuclear weapons.
And we believe he has, in fact, reconstituted nuclear weapons."
- Vice President Dick Cheney, on "Meet the Press", 3/16/03
"I don't know anybody that I can think of who has contended that the
Iraqis had nuclear weapons."
- Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, 6/24/03
"I think in this case international law
stood in the way of doing the right thing (invading Iraq)."
- Richard Perle
"He (Saddam Hussein) has not developed any significant capability with
respect to weapons of mass destruction. He is unable to project
conventional power against his neighbours."
- Colin Powell February 24 2001
"We have been successful for the last ten years in keeping
him from developing those weapons and we will continue to be successful."
"He threatens not the United States."
"But I also thought that we had pretty
much removed his stings and frankly for ten years we really have."
'But what is interesting is that with the regime that has been in place
for the past ten years, I think a pretty good job has been done of
keeping him from breaking out and suddenly showing up one day and saying
"look what I got." He hasn't been able to do that.'
- Colin Powell February 26 2001 |
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gaffo wrote:
| Quote: | http://www.faqs.org/usenet
http://www.uwasa.fi/~ts/http/signatur.html
Lose the long .sig file.
sorry I'm duty bound as an American citizen. I'm sorry if I offend.
After Nov2 - when Liberty dies/lives. either way my sig will go.
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Even if your 150+ line .sig file violates USENET etiquette to the
Nth degree?
| Quote: | I'm morally obligated to keep it in defence of Liberty, our Constitution
and American Ideals until then.
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Bravo to you for that. But there is a place for everything. The VCR
newsgroup is not such a place. You offend, not defend. You come off
as a hot aired loser, trying to attract attention.
Lose the long .sig file. |
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In article <qZ52d.11155$yp2.11154@newssvr30.news.prodigy.com>, gaffo <gaffo@usenet.net> wrote:
| Quote: | GMAN wrote:
In article <wEN1d.20027$Fj7.16736@newssvr24.news.prodigy.com>, gaffo
gaffo@usenet.net> wrote:
CygnusX-1 wrote:
Oh so everything is low end nowadays? I was wondering why the prices
of VCRs are so cheap now. I checked best buy and circuit city web
sites and the highest VCR price was about $90. I thought Panasonic
had a model that supported LP..?
Cygnus
The Bringer of Balance
Vincent Poy <vince@WURLDLINK.NET.noSPAM> wrote in message
I don't think either of those has LP in item #3. Everything is really low-
end these days since there is no JVC HRS-8000U or Mitsubishi HS-U70/80.
Cheers,
Vince
My cousin had a Panasonic - very clean picture, low noise.
I have a Toshiba - noticably more sharper and cleaner picture than my GE
one.
MY Toshiba will playback SVHS fairly well - no it is not a SVHS
playback-able unit.
MY GE cannot playback my old SVHS tapes - not in a watchable way anyhow.
This tells me that the Toshiba has a higher bandwidth and thus a higer
rez capability over the GE.
Not so, it has nothing to do with toshiba having a higher bandwidth. It has
to
do with the fact that the toshiba has built into it what is called SQPB
(Super
Quasi Play Back). The ability to playback SVHS video at standard vhs
resolution.
My unit does not offer that feature.
Its playback watchable - but it is not clean. the usual white hot spots
tend to bleed in high contrast scenes
My old 80's Mitsubishi had an excellent picture - better than my old RCA
SVHS (under VHS mode).
Mitsubishi in general has almost always had a decent quality picture.
SO..............toshiba (my 1st recommendation), panasonic, mitsubishi
(GOOD)
GE, RCA (BAD).
my 2-cents.
BTW - the Toshiba has better tracking and can playback my 12 yr old 8-hr
HiFi audio recordings of copied CDs which I recorded using the old RCA
unit before it died years later.
My GE cannot hold the stereo track and the music drifts from mone to
stereo and back again.
Truth be known the GE VHS unit is a POS.
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In article <y%52d.11156$yp2.9876@newssvr30.news.prodigy.com>, gaffo <gaffo@usenet.net> wrote:
| Quote: | ric wrote:
gaffo wrote:
[...major snip]
http://www.faqs.org/usenet
http://www.uwasa.fi/~ts/http/signatur.html
Lose the long .sig file.
sorry I'm duty bound as an American citizen. I'm sorry if I offend.
After Nov2 - when Liberty dies/lives. either way my sig will go.
I'm morally obligated to keep it in defence of Liberty, our Constitution
and American Ideals until then.
peace.
Then i am morally obligated to report the abuse to your ISP. |
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