If anyone out there knows if there is a job market out there for geographers or cartographers, email me or post something. I'm in the career change mood.
wyattearp@mac.com
This is an off topic post, I know it, you know it.
I read the.pdf and then I popped over to the New America Foundation and looked at the Senior Staff bios.
Wow I am so stunned at why anyone gives a rip what these jokers put out.
The head guy, the dude the Washington Post profiled last year, Ted Halstead - President and CEO, he doesn't do research. I work with people that don't do reseach, I call them the Grounds Crew.
He went to Harvard woohoo, Presidents Bush and W Bush went to Yale, having exclusive school deploma doesn't mean one is a genius. Harvard Business School didn't consider anything Internet to be "business" until about 1998-99.
Ooh Hollywood types and CongressCritters like them. Another nail in the coffin of respectablity.
The head joker at NAF is the buttmunch that told Warren Beatty to run for President.
"Previously, Mr. Halstead was Executive Director of Redefining Progress, another public policy institute that he founded to promote new approaches to economic and environmental policy." - Thats alot of words to say "He sat around and talked about cloud-cookoo-land."
"Kevin Werbach" - the guy that wrote the paper linked here - "is a technology consultant, author, and founder of the Supernova Group." He also has some 'leet HTML skillz - http://werbach.com/home.html - He uses a Mac, a point in his favor.
They throw out buzz words and do 20 pages and we are suposed to care why?
Based on Ballmer's Fire Up Microsoft By Jumping Around Like An Ape video from a while back, I figured he'll leap into the PR Hoochie's office swinging from chair to chair and then start throwing feces at her to show that he is the Alpha Male of the Microsoft pack.
I'm netadmin/desktop support dude in a private K12 and I've never had a problem with Apple, even with non-Apple hardware.
Stuff like...
"Yea, I've thrown a couple 120 gig Maxtor IDEs in there and oddles of third party RAM, oh and I'm running a Beta of 10.2 in the box."
"Alright sir, none of that should be doing anything odd, lets trouble shoot the motherboard."
"You don't want me to jerk the other stuff?"
"Naw."
Apple has sent me power supplies, motherboards, Powerbook cases, all sorts of parts. Heck if it's an issue in the first month, they have a local service place come out and try to fix it, or replace it with the same machine from thier stock.
Every time I've gone through that stretch of Freeway, the weather is either terrible, or when I got off the Freeway it's been strange.
If I can't make a long distance phone call from a payphone that strikes me as strange.
Aryan Nation might not "have much of a local presence" today but when I drove it in 2000 there were alot of cars and trucks on the road with White Pride bumper stickers out there. When I drove it twice this spring, there was just alot of snow and ice.
I really got the feeling if you don't look nervous, don't flash wealth, don't look/act paranoid, nothing bad will happen.
Pelton's Most Dangerous Places books and videos reenforced my tactics for being out there in dangerous places.
I'm from a rough place, an Indian Reservation, if you can communicate without being too prideful, if you can talk to people well, and don't stick out, you can go anywhere.
I sat at a bus stop outside Hebron, and while I'm not Jewish, I've been mistaken for one by Isrealis, American Jews, Italians, Dutch, I talked for 45 minutes with a Palestinian activist who had just returned from Tunis. I've sat down with militant Jews, American Indian Movement fellas, serious white-hating Blacks and a mixture of Palestinian factions with no problems.
Two of my best friends in High School are hardcore AIM/Cheyenne Sioux activists, and I am not:).
Now is just as safe as before, as long as you stay on a mostly beaten path.
I went to Isreal during the first intifata and in '94 right after the Jewish settler shot up the mosque. I stayed in the far north of Isreal when Hezbollah was all fired up. It was safe. Honestly, even in the recent bombing frenzy in Israel it's still a 1 in 100,000 chance of being geeked.
If one has some common sense about traveling and where not to go, it's pretty safe to travel the world.
Don't go to Afghanistan, Iraq, rural southern Phillipines, rural former Eastern-Bloc nation, rural former Soviet Republic, don't get off I-90 between Spokane and Missoula at night, or if you don't look Aryan, don't go to rural Columbia, don't hook up with Shining Path leaders in Peru.
If one has some common sense, don't worry about it.
I stayed on the beach in Tel Aviv for 3 weeks, people told me not to do it, but if you take some precautions and avoid gettin' plastered, it's safe as anything.
Terror can happen anywhere on Earth. From Finland to Belfast to gas stations in the DC metro area to a night club in Bali, a 85% Hindu island.
To your statement there is no where to go, I say bullhockey.
Ever been to the Dakotas? There are thousands and thousands and thousands of cheap acres of land to be had.
If I wanted to, I could go to any number of wildernesses and build a cottage and farm. Dakotas, Eastern Montana, Northwest Territory, Alaska, northern Wyoming, the middle of Siberia, the eastern deserts of Iraq, Mongolia, etc.
More and more people are moving to cities around the world, thus more and more land out in the "Fly-Over" states and provinces in North America are opening back up.
I think you've watched the Matrix one too many times.
I agree on the moving of roles between Police and Military.
I am a firm believer in the Posse Comitatus Act
(18 USC 1385).
But I think if it's a military asset being used by civilian law enforcement who have a different set of rules of engagement, it's alright. As long as it is under civilian control.
I thought the view of the military in the Siege was...well the whole movie was dumb.
I threw in Canada because I know there are alot of gun owners in Western Canada, and because I didn't want any Canucks getting on my case for excluding Canada or thinkin' it's not a neighbor to the United States or thinking it's another protectorate of the US or anything.
There are a few million firearms up in the Great White North.
I don't think the shooter is a military or police sniper for a couple reasons.
1. Wrong caliber weapon - a 5.45, shorty 7.62 or 5.54 NATO isn't a sniper rifle caliber. If the shots were.308, 30.06, or.300, I'd think it might be a sniper trained person.
2. Shell casing left behind - Snipers police the area.
3. Tarot card left behind - That strikes me as a red herring
4. Shoot and scoot - A sniper wouldn't work that way. They'd go to ground where chances are they'd not be seen, then use a high powered rife with a scope, hit one and remain there, 500-1500 meters away from the hit, then leave calmly.
Lee Harvey Oswald or the shooter in Texas in the 60s worked that MO because it's the Military MO and they were Marine trained riflemen.
The US military is very aware of due process and what is or isn't legal.
In the fall of '01 the USAF and Central Command had live visual targeting of Mullah Omar from a Preditor UAV with Hellfire missiles. A Central Command lawyer was in the CP and told the Generals that it may not be legal to hellfire that man because it could be considered assination of a foriegn leader.
So CentCom had to wait till he left the build and got in a vehicle, then it was legal to fire on the vehicle. The Hellfire missed and he got away.
The US Military (mostly) follows the Uniform Code of Military Justice.
To argue that the US Military doesn't concern it's self with due process or rights or evidence or protecting civilians is a slap in the face of all those that serve.
Yes, they don't have the same standards as the Police, but they do follow the laws and rules that govern them.
Well we can look at the increasing crime rates in the cities of the UK for what happens when there is gun control.
The old saying - when guns are outlawed only the criminals will have guns rings true.
If you think the tangos running around the DC area shooting people are morons, then I take it you've never shot at a target from 75-120 meters and center massed the target with 1 or 2 shots. It's not rocket science, but it isn't easy.
Car registration isn't because it's a possible weapon, it's to provide a revenue stream for the local and state governents. Way back it was to provide a tax for road improvments, but now it's a General Fund revenue stream.
If the government is going to force registration on firearms, why not on rat poison or staircases or chains or wires or balling up a fist?
If you think registration or banning firearms will solve anything, then you don't understand.
I was reading a book the other day about the History of of Colonial America, don't recall the title of it this early in the morning though.
Heres the thing I took from it.
In Colonial America all free males HAD to own a musket or a sword or a pike. If they were known to have the money, they had to have a sword and musket. In some towns all males between 16 and 45 had to have a horse and sword and pistol.
So at the time, most free males were part of a militia of some sort, or had served and were out. Thats where the well regulated comes in. The Framers were not talking about an Army being necessary to the security, they were talking about a well regulated militia of free males.
That all said, I think you misunderstand what a hunting rifle is/has to be. It's typically a much more powerful weapon than anything on the battlefield. A 45-70 scout rifle or a 338 or a 375 are all much more powerful than what the DC area gunman uses. They are not "lower-power".
The Federal and some state governments do resent private gun ownership. They are threatened by it as well.
"There's no way that a group of citizens with guns is going to overthrow the oppression of the U.S. government."
If that is true, then why did Randy Weaver at Ruby Ridge get assaulted by ATF for no good reason, then have hundreds of agents siege his home and then have members of his family killed? The simple and obvious answer is because the Federal Government is threatened by gun ownership.
Same thing happened at Waco with David Koresh and his gang, Government heard they had alot of guns, they decided to raid the compound instead of taking them down when they went to town. ATF agents and dozens of civilians dead at the end of it. Obviously a violation of Freedom of Religon issue there.
Oh, I'd not be too sure of what a ground can or can't do. In April of 1775 I'm sure people said that it's impossable that a group of farmers in America can't overthrown the British Army.
You might think it's a political game these days, but with the sting of bodies and illegal search and seizures that ATF and FBI have done in the last 12 years, it really doesn't look like it to me and many others that follow these events.
If you find a shell casing, often it will tell you nothing other than the caliber.
AKs use a shorty 7.62 or 5.45 caliber round, there are about 45-70 million AKs world wide, so if you find that casing, you are still dealing with a haystack. Some American makers are switching to the AKs 7.62 beacuse the rounds are cheap.
ARs typically use a 5.56, as do other NATO standard battle rifles and Isreali made rifles. I'm going to ballpark a number here and say there are 15-35 million rifles out there firing a 5.56.
The shooter in the DC area is using either a 5.56 or a 5.45 caliber rifle, I've heard both on the news and the police have shown both an AR and an AK on the news as the weapon being used.
Now, a bullet will get you more information, but with the sheer numbers of weapons out there in the US-Canada-Mexico pushing the 300-400 million range, even if you get a bullet that you can run ballistics on chances are high than they won't be using something in your Database.
An example, I have a 54 year old Remington Model 8 in.300 Savage which fires great, it's not going to be in a Database since all the databases proposed are for licenced gun sales and new weapons.
As for the arguement that cars are licenced but guns aren't, well cars aren't meantioned in the Constitution now are they? If the 2nd Amendment is going to be infringed on, then why shouldn't we licence printing presses or computers? Both are capable of being used against the common good of the people.
Well, if airline tickets remain at a fixed price, or rise at a rate lower than inflation or the normal payraise rate, then airline tickets will be cheaper than they were before.
Flights from London to New York or Seattle to London are cheaper than they were before.
When we finally run out of oil? What if we don't run out of oil?
I've not been treated yet. Just got the diagnosis on Sunday morning between the morphine shots for the pain. I've been through alot of cancer treatments, so I have a pretty high threshold for pain, but I was wiped out by the gall stones.
The elevated WBC threw me off, since I didn't have an elevated WBC on Sunday, but the pain symptoms just told me it was something in the gall bladder area.
I'm going to avoid an operation if I can, I've had 8 and I don't want to have another. If OHSU won't do what I need done, I'll go to Mayo Clinic again, maybe Mayo Scottsdale since my cousin has a bitchin' pad down there.
Back in the day when I got ALL (Oct of 1980), the rates for 5 year survival was about 32% for males. I recall the Doctor telling me that I would not live to be 12. Then when I relapsed, the day after being cured (Nov '82) I was told I had 3 years before I'd get it again.
Treatment back then was pretty rough as well, a former boss and I consider ourselves to be OG Cancer Survivors.
My family has lost 2 others to cancer in the last 12 years too. Brain and Lung cancer.
Just a guess since I was at ER Sunday morning with extreme GI pains and it was gall stones.
For the record, I think Doctors do a bang up job, but I might be biased as I had ALL and TC and a ALL relapse before I was 18 and I lived, thanks to the good people at St. Mary's in Pierre, Mobridge Medical Clinic and all my homies on Floors 12 and 17 of the Mayo Clinc. Heres a shout-out to the anathesiologists at St. Mary's and the Methodist Hospital at Mayo as well.
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I love maps. Maps rock.
If anyone out there knows if there is a job market out there for geographers or cartographers, email me or post something. I'm in the career change mood.
wyattearp@mac.com
This is an off topic post, I know it, you know it.
I read the .pdf and then I popped over to the New America Foundation and looked at the Senior Staff bios.
Wow I am so stunned at why anyone gives a rip what these jokers put out.
The head guy, the dude the Washington Post profiled last year, Ted Halstead - President and CEO, he doesn't do research. I work with people that don't do reseach, I call them the Grounds Crew.
He went to Harvard woohoo, Presidents Bush and W Bush went to Yale, having exclusive school deploma doesn't mean one is a genius. Harvard Business School didn't consider anything Internet to be "business" until about 1998-99.
Ooh Hollywood types and CongressCritters like them. Another nail in the coffin of respectablity.
The head joker at NAF is the buttmunch that told Warren Beatty to run for President.
"Previously, Mr. Halstead was Executive Director of Redefining Progress, another public policy institute that he founded to promote new approaches to economic and environmental policy." - Thats alot of words to say "He sat around and talked about cloud-cookoo-land."
"Kevin Werbach" - the guy that wrote the paper linked here - "is a technology consultant, author, and founder of the Supernova Group." He also has some 'leet HTML skillz - http://werbach.com/home.html - He uses a Mac, a point in his favor.
They throw out buzz words and do 20 pages and we are suposed to care why?
Based on Ballmer's Fire Up Microsoft By Jumping Around Like An Ape video from a while back, I figured he'll leap into the PR Hoochie's office swinging from chair to chair and then start throwing feces at her to show that he is the Alpha Male of the Microsoft pack.
We've had terrible experiances recently with Gateway desktops.
Had a bunch come with USB keyboards which blue screen as soon as you'd use the keyboards.
Play WMP, QT, Real on it, computer reboots it's self. That happened with NT4 SP6, Win2K all SPs, WinXP Home and Pro.
Gateway said it was a motherboard issue. Got all new MoBos for 12 machines, switched them out, and same thing happens.
Solution
Never buy Gateway again.
Talking to the wrong people.
I'm netadmin/desktop support dude in a private K12 and I've never had a problem with Apple, even with non-Apple hardware.
Stuff like...
"Yea, I've thrown a couple 120 gig Maxtor IDEs in there and oddles of third party RAM, oh and I'm running a Beta of 10.2 in the box."
"Alright sir, none of that should be doing anything odd, lets trouble shoot the motherboard."
"You don't want me to jerk the other stuff?"
"Naw."
Apple has sent me power supplies, motherboards, Powerbook cases, all sorts of parts. Heck if it's an issue in the first month, they have a local service place come out and try to fix it, or replace it with the same machine from thier stock.
I'm from pitch-black-night South Dakota.
Every time I've gone through that stretch of Freeway, the weather is either terrible, or when I got off the Freeway it's been strange.
If I can't make a long distance phone call from a payphone that strikes me as strange.
Aryan Nation might not "have much of a local presence" today but when I drove it in 2000 there were alot of cars and trucks on the road with White Pride bumper stickers out there. When I drove it twice this spring, there was just alot of snow and ice.
In the winter of '93 I pulled off west-bound I-90 to use the phone.
It told me I couldn't make a long distance call from that location, couldn't do a 1-800 number, couldn't use a calling card.
It was pitch black and too quiet.
I drove really freakin' fast to Spokane.
I really got the feeling if you don't look nervous, don't flash wealth, don't look/act paranoid, nothing bad will happen.
:).
Pelton's Most Dangerous Places books and videos reenforced my tactics for being out there in dangerous places.
I'm from a rough place, an Indian Reservation, if you can communicate without being too prideful, if you can talk to people well, and don't stick out, you can go anywhere.
I sat at a bus stop outside Hebron, and while I'm not Jewish, I've been mistaken for one by Isrealis, American Jews, Italians, Dutch, I talked for 45 minutes with a Palestinian activist who had just returned from Tunis. I've sat down with militant Jews, American Indian Movement fellas, serious white-hating Blacks and a mixture of Palestinian factions with no problems.
Two of my best friends in High School are hardcore AIM/Cheyenne Sioux activists, and I am not
It's all good, and it is mostly safe out there.
Now is just as safe as before, as long as you stay on a mostly beaten path.
I went to Isreal during the first intifata and in '94 right after the Jewish settler shot up the mosque. I stayed in the far north of Isreal when Hezbollah was all fired up. It was safe. Honestly, even in the recent bombing frenzy in Israel it's still a 1 in 100,000 chance of being geeked.
If one has some common sense about traveling and where not to go, it's pretty safe to travel the world.
Don't go to Afghanistan, Iraq, rural southern Phillipines, rural former Eastern-Bloc nation, rural former Soviet Republic, don't get off I-90 between Spokane and Missoula at night, or if you don't look Aryan, don't go to rural Columbia, don't hook up with Shining Path leaders in Peru.
If one has some common sense, don't worry about it.
I stayed on the beach in Tel Aviv for 3 weeks, people told me not to do it, but if you take some precautions and avoid gettin' plastered, it's safe as anything.
Terror can happen anywhere on Earth. From Finland to Belfast to gas stations in the DC metro area to a night club in Bali, a 85% Hindu island.
The secret is to be careful out there.
To your statement there is no where to go, I say bullhockey.
Ever been to the Dakotas? There are thousands and thousands and thousands of cheap acres of land to be had.
If I wanted to, I could go to any number of wildernesses and build a cottage and farm. Dakotas, Eastern Montana, Northwest Territory, Alaska, northern Wyoming, the middle of Siberia, the eastern deserts of Iraq, Mongolia, etc.
More and more people are moving to cities around the world, thus more and more land out in the "Fly-Over" states and provinces in North America are opening back up.
I think you've watched the Matrix one too many times.
I get you now.
I agree on the moving of roles between Police and Military.
I am a firm believer in the Posse Comitatus Act
(18 USC 1385).
But I think if it's a military asset being used by civilian law enforcement who have a different set of rules of engagement, it's alright. As long as it is under civilian control.
I thought the view of the military in the Siege was...well the whole movie was dumb.
I threw in Canada because I know there are alot of gun owners in Western Canada, and because I didn't want any Canucks getting on my case for excluding Canada or thinkin' it's not a neighbor to the United States or thinking it's another protectorate of the US or anything.
There are a few million firearms up in the Great White North.
I don't think the shooter is a military or police sniper for a couple reasons.
.308, 30.06, or .300, I'd think it might be a sniper trained person.
1. Wrong caliber weapon - a 5.45, shorty 7.62 or 5.54 NATO isn't a sniper rifle caliber. If the shots were
2. Shell casing left behind - Snipers police the area.
3. Tarot card left behind - That strikes me as a red herring
4. Shoot and scoot - A sniper wouldn't work that way. They'd go to ground where chances are they'd not be seen, then use a high powered rife with a scope, hit one and remain there, 500-1500 meters away from the hit, then leave calmly.
Lee Harvey Oswald or the shooter in Texas in the 60s worked that MO because it's the Military MO and they were Marine trained riflemen.
The US military is very aware of due process and what is or isn't legal.
In the fall of '01 the USAF and Central Command had live visual targeting of Mullah Omar from a Preditor UAV with Hellfire missiles. A Central Command lawyer was in the CP and told the Generals that it may not be legal to hellfire that man because it could be considered assination of a foriegn leader.
So CentCom had to wait till he left the build and got in a vehicle, then it was legal to fire on the vehicle. The Hellfire missed and he got away.
The US Military (mostly) follows the Uniform Code of Military Justice.
To argue that the US Military doesn't concern it's self with due process or rights or evidence or protecting civilians is a slap in the face of all those that serve.
Yes, they don't have the same standards as the Police, but they do follow the laws and rules that govern them.
Registration
Well we can look at the increasing crime rates in the cities of the UK for what happens when there is gun control.
The old saying - when guns are outlawed only the criminals will have guns rings true.
If you think the tangos running around the DC area shooting people are morons, then I take it you've never shot at a target from 75-120 meters and center massed the target with 1 or 2 shots. It's not rocket science, but it isn't easy.
Car registration isn't because it's a possible weapon, it's to provide a revenue stream for the local and state governents. Way back it was to provide a tax for road improvments, but now it's a General Fund revenue stream.
If the government is going to force registration on firearms, why not on rat poison or staircases or chains or wires or balling up a fist?
If you think registration or banning firearms will solve anything, then you don't understand.
Weapons don't kill people, people kill people.
I was reading a book the other day about the History of of Colonial America, don't recall the title of it this early in the morning though.
Heres the thing I took from it.
In Colonial America all free males HAD to own a musket or a sword or a pike. If they were known to have the money, they had to have a sword and musket. In some towns all males between 16 and 45 had to have a horse and sword and pistol.
So at the time, most free males were part of a militia of some sort, or had served and were out. Thats where the well regulated comes in. The Framers were not talking about an Army being necessary to the security, they were talking about a well regulated militia of free males.
That all said, I think you misunderstand what a hunting rifle is/has to be. It's typically a much more powerful weapon than anything on the battlefield. A 45-70 scout rifle or a 338 or a 375 are all much more powerful than what the DC area gunman uses. They are not "lower-power".
The Federal and some state governments do resent private gun ownership. They are threatened by it as well.
"There's no way that a group of citizens with guns is going to overthrow the oppression of the U.S. government."
If that is true, then why did Randy Weaver at Ruby Ridge get assaulted by ATF for no good reason, then have hundreds of agents siege his home and then have members of his family killed? The simple and obvious answer is because the Federal Government is threatened by gun ownership.
Same thing happened at Waco with David Koresh and his gang, Government heard they had alot of guns, they decided to raid the compound instead of taking them down when they went to town. ATF agents and dozens of civilians dead at the end of it. Obviously a violation of Freedom of Religon issue there.
Oh, I'd not be too sure of what a ground can or can't do. In April of 1775 I'm sure people said that it's impossable that a group of farmers in America can't overthrown the British Army.
You might think it's a political game these days, but with the sting of bodies and illegal search and seizures that ATF and FBI have done in the last 12 years, it really doesn't look like it to me and many others that follow these events.
If you find a shell casing, often it will tell you nothing other than the caliber.
.300 Savage which fires great, it's not going to be in a Database since all the databases proposed are for licenced gun sales and new weapons.
AKs use a shorty 7.62 or 5.45 caliber round, there are about 45-70 million AKs world wide, so if you find that casing, you are still dealing with a haystack. Some American makers are switching to the AKs 7.62 beacuse the rounds are cheap.
ARs typically use a 5.56, as do other NATO standard battle rifles and Isreali made rifles. I'm going to ballpark a number here and say there are 15-35 million rifles out there firing a 5.56.
The shooter in the DC area is using either a 5.56 or a 5.45 caliber rifle, I've heard both on the news and the police have shown both an AR and an AK on the news as the weapon being used.
Now, a bullet will get you more information, but with the sheer numbers of weapons out there in the US-Canada-Mexico pushing the 300-400 million range, even if you get a bullet that you can run ballistics on chances are high than they won't be using something in your Database.
An example, I have a 54 year old Remington Model 8 in
As for the arguement that cars are licenced but guns aren't, well cars aren't meantioned in the Constitution now are they? If the 2nd Amendment is going to be infringed on, then why shouldn't we licence printing presses or computers? Both are capable of being used against the common good of the people.
Well, if airline tickets remain at a fixed price, or rise at a rate lower than inflation or the normal payraise rate, then airline tickets will be cheaper than they were before.
Flights from London to New York or Seattle to London are cheaper than they were before.
When we finally run out of oil? What if we don't run out of oil?
Honestly, we don't know. There is a higher than average cancer rate for most cancers in the county we lived in.
Grew up on a farm, chemicals, fuels, radon, substation across the road, all sorts of possible causes.
Dunno what the deal is, but theres alot of cancer back there.
I've not been treated yet. Just got the diagnosis on Sunday morning between the morphine shots for the pain. I've been through alot of cancer treatments, so I have a pretty high threshold for pain, but I was wiped out by the gall stones.
The elevated WBC threw me off, since I didn't have an elevated WBC on Sunday, but the pain symptoms just told me it was something in the gall bladder area.
I'm going to avoid an operation if I can, I've had 8 and I don't want to have another. If OHSU won't do what I need done, I'll go to Mayo Clinic again, maybe Mayo Scottsdale since my cousin has a bitchin' pad down there.
Back in the day when I got ALL (Oct of 1980), the rates for 5 year survival was about 32% for males. I recall the Doctor telling me that I would not live to be 12. Then when I relapsed, the day after being cured (Nov '82) I was told I had 3 years before I'd get it again.
Treatment back then was pretty rough as well, a former boss and I consider ourselves to be OG Cancer Survivors.
My family has lost 2 others to cancer in the last 12 years too. Brain and Lung cancer.
Gall Stones?
Just a guess since I was at ER Sunday morning with extreme GI pains and it was gall stones.
For the record, I think Doctors do a bang up job, but I might be biased as I had ALL and TC and a ALL relapse before I was 18 and I lived, thanks to the good people at St. Mary's in Pierre, Mobridge Medical Clinic and all my homies on Floors 12 and 17 of the Mayo Clinc. Heres a shout-out to the anathesiologists at St. Mary's and the Methodist Hospital at Mayo as well.
I really like my 17" iMac LCD.
All that deskspace returned and that swinging arm and then thin little screen, it rocks.
MS has how many billions in the bank to pay an ad firm and that's the best they can do?
Pretty pathetic.
I've seen those as well.
The imaging systems I've seen are SGI/Sun boxes. But the DRM story focused on smaller systems, which indeed do use smaller PDA class chips.
I still find the author of the DRM story to be reactionary and, well stupid.