Mikes test software to play with the balloon

Simple Balloon

Top part of the balloon

Middle part of the balloon

OK, that's hard to see. Here I put about 50 copies of the image. I suspect each image is only 1 pixel high.


























































Bottom part of the balloon

3 row table with a balloon

The first row has the top part of the balloon.

The last row has the bottom part of the balloon.

The middle row has 50 or 60 copies of the middle balloon image.



















































3 <div>'s for the balloon

Here I just stacked 3 <DIV>'s to create a balloon.



















































3 <div>'s for the balloon - as 1 big <div>

Here I just stacked 3 <DIV>'s to create a balloon.

But here I merged them into one outside <div>

Here I did not set a width of the <div> so the div is as wide as the page.

In the next example I will set a width of the div.




















































3 <div>'s for the balloon - as 1 big <div> with 293 pixel width

Here I just stacked 3 <DIV>'s to create a balloon.

But here I merged them into one outside <div>

Here I did set a width of the <div> to 293 pixels.

In this example I didn't set left and right margins. In the next example I will set some margins.




















































3 <div>'s for the balloon - as 1 big <div> with 20 pixel margins

Here I just stacked 3 <DIV>'s to create a balloon.

But here I merged them into one outside <div>

Here I did set a width of the <div> to 293 pixels.

I also set margins of 20 pixels.

I am suprised that there isn't red above the balloon because I set a top margin of 20 pixels.




















































Balloons as background images

In the following examples I will use the previous balloon images as background images rather then images that are displayed on the web page.

Example #1 - It sucks!!!!

Example #2 - Text is better!!!!

Note for the top image we had to put a height to get it to display.

That is because there isn't any text in the top <div> and we need to force it to be 18 pixels tall or high.

The middle part works perfect as it has all along.

That's because we have a background-repeat : repeat-y; in it.

It's kind of hard to screw the middle part up!!!!!!

And of course in this example we had to define a height in the bottom image because there isn't any text in it!!!!

It has a height of 64 pixels defined for useless information.

Example #3 - Text is better!!!! Background Color

Note for the top image we had to put a height to get it to display.

That is because there isn't any text in the top <div> and we need to force it to be 18 pixels tall or high.

The middle part works perfect as it has all along.

That's because we have a background-repeat : repeat-y; in it.

It's kind of hard to screw the middle part up!!!!!!

And of course in this example we had to define a height in the bottom image because there isn't any text in it!!!!

It has a height of 64 pixels defined for useless information.

I give up on this Z-AXIS Stuff

Balloons on the Z-Axis instead of background

In the following examples I will use the previous balloon images displayed on the Z axis or z-axis rather then being displayed as background images.

Example #1 - It sucks!!!!

Stuff

Nick's Stuff

Examples straight off of the web page

Using CSS to do it - no width

Stuff in a yellow balloon!!!! Whoppieeeeee!!!!

Using CSS to do it - width 300px

Stuff in a yellow balloon!!!! Whoppieeeeee!!!! I love balloons as much as I love monkies!!!!

Using CSS to do it - width 200px

Stuff in a yellow balloon!!!! Whoppieeeeee!!!! I love balloons as much as I love monkies!!!!

Using CSS to do it - width 150px

Stuff in a yellow balloon!!!! Whoppieeeeee!!!! I love balloons as much as I love monkies!!!!

Using CSS to do it - width 125px

Stuff in a yellow balloon!!!! Whoppieeeeee!!!! I love balloons as much as I love monkies!!!!

Using CSS to do it - width 100px

Stuff in a yellow balloon!!!! Whoppieeeeee!!!! I love balloons as much as I love monkies!!!!

Yellow Tweeks Mike made to the prior example

In the previous example they are using a graidaint that changes from a a light yellow to a dark yellow.

Mike changed it to use a solit yellow color as opposed to a graidiant.

Using CSS to do it - no width

Stuff in a yellow balloon!!!! Whoppieeeeee!!!!

Using CSS to do it - width 300px

Stuff in a yellow balloon!!!! Whoppieeeeee!!!! I love balloons as much as I love monkies!!!!

Using CSS to do it - width 200px

Stuff in a yellow balloon!!!! Whoppieeeeee!!!! I love balloons as much as I love monkies!!!!

Using CSS to do it - width 150px

Stuff in a yellow balloon!!!! Whoppieeeeee!!!! I love balloons as much as I love monkies!!!!

Using CSS to do it - width 125px

Stuff in a yellow balloon!!!! Whoppieeeeee!!!! I love balloons as much as I love monkies!!!!

Using CSS to do it - width 100px

Stuff in a yellow balloon!!!! Whoppieeeeee!!!! I love balloons as much as I love monkies!!!!

Blue Tweeks Mike made to the prior example

In the previous example mike used a orange color for the balloon.

Mike changed it to use a solid blue color as opposed to the orange.

Using CSS to do it - no width

Stuff in a yellow balloon!!!! Whoppieeeeee!!!!

Using CSS to do it - width 300px

Stuff in a yellow balloon!!!! Whoppieeeeee!!!! I love balloons as much as I love monkies!!!!

Using CSS to do it - width 200px

Stuff in a yellow balloon!!!! Whoppieeeeee!!!! I love balloons as much as I love monkies!!!!

Using CSS to do it - width 150px

Stuff in a yellow balloon!!!! Whoppieeeeee!!!! I love balloons as much as I love monkies!!!!

Using CSS to do it - width 125px

Stuff in a yellow balloon!!!! Whoppieeeeee!!!! I love balloons as much as I love monkies!!!!

Using CSS to do it - width 100px

Stuff in a yellow balloon!!!! Whoppieeeeee!!!! I love balloons as much as I love monkies!!!!

Blue Tweeks Mike made to the prior example

In the previous example mike used a orange color for the balloon.

Mike changed it to use a solid blue color as opposed to the orange.

Using CSS to do it - no width

Stuff in a yellow balloon!!!! Whoppieeeeee!!!!

Using CSS to do it - width 300px

Stuff in a yellow balloon!!!! Whoppieeeeee!!!! I love balloons as much as I love monkies!!!!

Using CSS to do it - width 200px

Stuff in a yellow balloon!!!! Whoppieeeeee!!!! I love balloons as much as I love monkies!!!!

Using CSS to do it - width 150px

Stuff in a yellow balloon!!!! Whoppieeeeee!!!! I love balloons as much as I love monkies!!!!

Using CSS to do it - width 125px

Stuff in a yellow balloon!!!! Whoppieeeeee!!!! I love balloons as much as I love monkies!!!!

Using CSS to do it - width 100px

Stuff in a yellow balloon!!!! Whoppieeeeee!!!! I love balloons as much as I love monkies!!!!

Libertarian Quotes

It was conceived of as a free government of a free people; it has become simply a battle of charlatans for the votes of idiots.

H. L. Mencken

Democracia es una supersticion muy difundido, un abuso de la estadística.

Jorge Luis Borges. Argentine Writer

Democracy is a widespread superstition, an abuse of statistics.

Jorge Luis Borges. Escritor argentino

"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."

H. L. Mencken

The legislature, like the executive, has ceased to be even the creature of the people: it is the creature of pressure groups, and most of them, it must be manifest, are of dubious wisdom and even more dubious honesty. Laws are no longer made by a rational process of public discussion; they are made by a process of blackmail and intimidation, and they are executed in the same manner. The typical lawmaker of today is a man wholly devoid of principle—a mere counter in a grotesque and knavish game…. If the right pressure could be applied to him he would be cheerfully in favor of chiropractic, astrology or cannibalism.

H. L. Mencken

“The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office. Their principal device to that end is to search out groups who pant and pine for something they can't get and to promise to give it to them. Nine times out of ten that promise is worth nothing. The tenth time is made good by looting A to satisfy B. In other words, government is a broker in pillage, and every election is sort of an advance auction sale of stolen goods.”

H. L. Mencken

Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.

H. L. Mencken

Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.

H. L. Mencken

Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.

H. L. Mencken

I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.

H. L. Mencken

It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.

H. L. Mencken

"The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all: it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality."

H. L. Mencken

And what is a good citizen? Simply one who never says, does or thinks anything that is unusual. Schools are maintained in order to bring this uniformity up to the highest possible point. A school is a hopper into which children are heaved while they are still young and tender; therein they are pressed into certain standard shapes and covered from head to heels with official rubber-stamps.

H. L. Mencken

Guantanamo is just a warm American version of the Rusian Siberia. They are both prisons for political prisoners.

The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.

Thomas Jefferson

The history of liberty is the history of the limitations placed on the government.

Woodrow Wilson


Tyranny is always better organized than freedom.

Thomas Paine

There are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by the gradual and silent encrochment of those in power, than by violent and sudden usurpation.

James Madison

They that can give up liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor saftey.

Ben Franklin

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

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

Thomas Jefferson

A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.

Gerald R. Ford

Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. Moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.

Barry Goldwater

The strongest reason for people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.

Thomas Jefferson

The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.

Justice Louis Brandeis - 1928

Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. This history of liberty is a history of resistance.

Woodrow Wilson

The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.

Edmund Burke 1899

We are fast approaching the stage in the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest period of human history; the stage of rule by brute force.

Ayn Rand

Democracy extends the sphere of individual freedom, socialism restricts it. Democracy attaches all possible value to each man; socialism make each man a mere agent, a mere number. Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word: equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.

Alexis de Tocqueville

To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.

George Mason

The Iraq and Afghanistan wars are nothing more then a government jobs program for highly paid generals and a government welfare program for the corporations in the military industrial complex.
The "War on Drugs" is just a jobs program for highly paid cops, prosecutors, probation officers and prison guards along with being a government welfare program for the businesses that are involved in the prison construction industry.
As government regulations grow slowly, we become used to the harness. Habit is a powerfull force, and we no longer feel as intensely as we once would have the constriction of our liberties that would have been utterly intolerable a mere half century ago.

Judge Robert Bork

There are only two important questions in government! “Who are we going to steal the money from?” Second and the most important “Who are we going to give the stolen money to?”

There are only two important questions in government! “Who are we going to tax?” Second and the most important “Who are we going to give the tax money to?”

When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty

Thomas Jefferson

When liberty is taken away by force, it can be restored by force. When it is relinquished voluntarily by default, it can never be recovered.

Dorothy Thompson

Government of the people, by the elected officials and appointed bureaucrats, for the elected officials, appointed bureaucrats and special interest groups that helped get them elected.

Michael Kaery

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.

Thomas Jefferson

The only thing that saves us from bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.

Eugene McCarthy

It is a cruel hoax to seek to persuade the American people that the Bill of Rights should be watered down in response to rising crime rates.

Nicholas Katzenbach

Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.

William Pitt

Do not critize your government when out of the country. Never cease to do so when at home.

Winston Churchill

Democracy is just a form of government where the slaves get to select their master by voting every 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 or so years. Slaves in democratic systems naively say they are free men because they vote for their master.

Michael Kaery

Democracy is just a form of slavery where the slaves get to select their master by voting every 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 or so years. Slaves in a democracy naively say they are free men because they vote for their master.

Michael Kaery

When an elected official, politician or government bureaucrat says they are a “public servant” it is an oxymoron, just as if a slave had said that he was the master of his owner.

Elected officials, politicians and government bureaucrats are our masters, not our servants.

Michael Kaery

“Naturally the common people don't want war; neither in Russia, nor in England, nor in America, nor in Germany. That is understood. But after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.”

“Of course people don’t want war. Why should a poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best thing he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece?”

"Of course the people don't want war. But after all, it's the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it's always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it's a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to greater danger."

"Why, of course, the people don't want war. Why would some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best that he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece. Naturally, the common people don't want war; neither in Russia nor in England nor in America, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy or a fascist dictatorship or a Parliament or a Communist dictatorship. The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country."

Naturally the common people don't want war; neither in Russia, nor in England, nor in America, nor in Germany. That is understood. But after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.

"Why of course the people don't want war. Why should some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally the common people don't want war neither in Russia, nor in England, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country."

The people can always be brought to the bidding of their leaders. All you have to do is tell them that they are in danger of being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger.

Hermann Goering - Hitler’s Reich Marshall

Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.

Milton Friedman

The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.

Milton Friedman

War is the health of the state

Randolph Burne

If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal

Emma Goldman

Did you VOTE for the Pentagon?
Did you VOTE for the Federal Reserve?
Did you VOTE for the Nuclear arms race?
Did you VOTE for the CIA?
Did you VOTE for the Iraq war?
Did you VOTE for the Afghanistan war?
Did you VOTE for the Drug war?
Did you VOTE for the Star Wars?
Did you VOTE for Obamacare?
Did you VOTE for the Income tax?
No government bureaucrat is so screwed up that they can't be fixed by a bullet.
First they came for the communists, and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a communist.

Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a Jew.

Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak out because I was Protestant.

Then they came for me and there was no one left to speak out for m

"They Thought They Were Free" by Milton Mayer

First they came for the hackers. But I never did anything illegal with my computer, so I didn't speak up.

Then they came for the pornographers. But I thought there was too much smut on the Internet anyway, so I didn't speak up

Then they came for the anonymous remailers. But a lot of nasty stuff gets sent from anon.penet.fi, so I didn't speak up.

Then they came for the encryption users. But I could never figure out how to work PGP anyway, so I didn't speak up.

Then they came for me. And by that time there was no one left to speak up.

Alara Rogers

Als die Nazis die Kommunisten holten, habe ich geschwiegen; ich war ja kein Kommunist.

Als sie die Sozialdemokraten einsperrten, habe ich geschwiegen; ich war ja kein Sozialdemokrat.

Als sie die Gewerkschafter holten, habe ich nicht protestiert; ich war ja kein Gewerkschafter.

Als sie die Juden holten, habe ich geschwiegen; ich war ja kein Jude.

Als sie mich holten, gab es keinen mehr, der protestierte.

I Love My Country, But I Fear My Government

Unknown author

"Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else."

Frederic Bastiat

"The State is the great fiction through which everyone endeavours to live at the expense of everyone else."

Frédéric Bastiat

When one person suffers from a delusion it is called insanity; when many people suffer from a delusion it is called religion.

Robert Pirsig

When one person suffers from a delusion it is called insanity; when many people suffer from a delusion it is called government policy.
“In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.”

Dwight D. Eisenhower

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals so that security and liberty may prosper together.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

“If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom. ”

Dwight D. Eisenhower