If they even show up - I got contested on unemployment for a 'layoff' I had. I had every reason to be fired, I was sick as hell and had almost died from an infected gallstone, and hadn't even called in sick! How horrid of me. Anyway... I went, and they never showed up to argue their side of the contesting. And it was soon after 9/11, so the benefits were drawn out to 9 months instead of 6. I found a job at the very very end of that 9 months, and have been happily employed every since.
I used to get these horrible smelling things, too. I've taken to scraping my tongue every night before I go to bed when brushing my teeth. I've stopped getting those nasty things, thank god.:)
L. Ron Hubbard was a crank and sure... he may have been a pretty good typist, but he wrote pure drivel. The one and only reason any of his books enjoyed any sort of sales is because all of his Scientology drones were required to purchase as many of them as possible to keep them on the 'bestseller' lists. They are crap.:)
Having more than one credit card fine. Having multiple credit cards in multiple names - not so fine.:) That's the problem, 'Oh. My John Adams credit card was denied? Ok. Here's my Quincy Adams. Denied? Hmmm. Here's my George Washington.'
I remember one time when I was working as a security guard (pays for stuff while you're in college). Anyway, no one came in to replace me. As a security guard you can't just leave your post. Called in, they freaked out and said they'd get someone right on it. 8 hours later STILL no one came in to replace me. And this is after I'd worked a 16 hour shift the day before, and got woken up at 11:00 at night after only 3 hours of sleep because I was the only floater available to cover that shift. So I worked 40 hours in 2 days. How did they get around paying me any over time? That was the last time I worked that week. 40 hours/week = regular pay.
Good god how I wish I could save money. First I'm laid off, but fiance has a solid job. Rack up debt while she's working, cause I have to pay for house and car and food (and lectricity and such). Finally get a job of my own and then fiance gets canned. At least I was able to pay off most of my debt while both of us were working, now I'm just trying not to get into more debt.
Actually given that most cds have tons of songs on em that suck, 200 tracks could come from 150-200 different albums. So you've got that one N'Sync song, and then that one Brittany song, and then that one J.Lo song... it adds up. Maybe that's what the music industry is thinking... Otherwise I can't make heads nor tails of it.
The anger I feel has turned cold. I want to find whoever did this, if it's bin Laden or whoever, and I want to find his friends and family and I want to bomb them. Not necessarily to death, just bomb the lower part of a building they are in so that flames start, and can't be quenched and the building slowly collapses. Then don't let anyone know if there are any survivors so that he can sit back and ask, 'Did my little girl make it out? Did my wife make it?'. I want him to feel that pain, that confusion, that dawning horror that maybe he lost something precious, and he'll never get it back. And then, slowly, over the course of many many days bring him tantalizing news, 'Oh... maybe one of them made it out... Maybe'.
Every time I hear a story of someone who was working on the 100th floor, who is missing, who may be in a hospital, may not, I feel this incredible sadness followed by cold rage. How dare they?!? How dare they do this?!? I want to give blood, I want to go to New York and help with the cleanup and rebuilding. I want to fly out to Afghanistan and find the ones who did this and make them suffer the same things I see on the television time and time again, 'Have you seen my son? My wife? My brother?'.
But I can't do that, and it wouldn't be fair to those friends and relatives. To do that would be to commit an act of terrorism, and that I would never want to do. That would make me the same as that cowardly shit hiding behind suicide bombers and suicide pilots.
I'm waiting to give blood because the bloodbanks are full. I will do it next week because blood is always a valuable commodity. I can't go out to New York because I have friends and family and a house and a job here. The act of terror was meant to disrupt the jobs and lives of Americans, and the fact that I'm here at work today means they failed.
Hey, I may work in a cube, but I have a window looking out on a lake. And a few weeks ago I guess that a snapping turtle laid her eggs right under my window, because today they hatched. I got to watch about 42 or 43 little baby snapping turtles take their first steps in the world. The only sad thing is that my contract ends in 3 weeks and then I'm out of here. Oh well.:)
I didn't recieve the call, but I was having problems so I called in. I got 'your estimate wait time is 83 minutes'. I waited 80+ minutes and click it sounded like it was transfered, followed by silence, followed by disconnection. Then I called back to hear that the new estimated wait time was 87 minutes. At this point I had 0 online connectivity, so I really had nothing else to do.:) When I finally did get through to someone, found out what I needed to do... I did that and everything was golden. I don't mind waiting on hold if I get fixed after waiting. I also appreciate the poor folks who had to work weekends and such with calls coming in nonstop.
I've been using one of these for about 6 months now. I got it refurbished (whoopidy doo, it still works great). The biggest problem I've found with all laptops is the mouse. Do you get the touchpad? The pencil eraser? Some sort of rollerball? What? I hate the touchpad, I hate the rollerball. The pencil eraser (IBM) is good.
I am repeating what someone else said in another post. I can't find it now, but I found it to be extremly interesting. After years of living in the 'cold war', we now have a Russian citizen who is fighting to LEAVE the U.S and go BACK to Russia where he can be free to express himself. Why is our government holding this man against his will? Why have the FBI not been brought up on charges of kidnapping? This is basically what they are doing. They are holding him against his will in some cell somewhere. If there hasn't been a horrid miscarriage of justice somewhere, I would be surprised.
Please please please Jon Katz, keep this thing in the light, keep the fight up. Don't let this die.
Free Dmitry!
And remember to vote at the bottom. The more votes the better. The more people that see this and read it, the more chance that this won't just get 'lost' in the media. The sooner he gets home to his family the better.
The linked story above, From MSNBC is one of the better pieces I've seen. It rips on the DMCA as well as having all the facts together. Please go there and at the bottom is a spot where you can vote for how important this story was so that other people can see it. I think it's pretty important. Here's the info about the author: Siva Vaidhyanathan, a cultural historian and media scholar, is the author of "Copyrights and Copywrongs: The Rise of Intellectual Property and How it Threatens Creativity." He teaches information studies at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
I wonder what would happen if we put DeCSS on one of those cds? Would MPAA have to send lawyers to take this satellite out? Or would lawyers be on hand to sue our decendants when they opened this thing up in 50,000 years?:)
I originally tried to get this posted on the 10th. What interests me more than the x-box is the picture of the actual X-box (or the one that's in this article from ZDNet). That's gotta be one of the coolest cases I've ever seen. I wish they had more pictures of them, maybe with specs for how the motherboard fits in there, etc...
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If they even show up - I got contested on unemployment for a 'layoff' I had. I had every reason to be fired, I was sick as hell and had almost died from an infected gallstone, and hadn't even called in sick! How horrid of me. Anyway... I went, and they never showed up to argue their side of the contesting. And it was soon after 9/11, so the benefits were drawn out to 9 months instead of 6. I found a job at the very very end of that 9 months, and have been happily employed every since.
Wasn't it Mojo, not Moho?
I used to get these horrible smelling things, too. I've taken to scraping my tongue every night before I go to bed when brushing my teeth. I've stopped getting those nasty things, thank god. :)
L. Ron Hubbard was a crank and sure... he may have been a pretty good typist, but he wrote pure drivel. The one and only reason any of his books enjoyed any sort of sales is because all of his Scientology drones were required to purchase as many of them as possible to keep them on the 'bestseller' lists. They are crap. :)
Having more than one credit card fine. Having multiple credit cards in multiple names - not so fine. :) That's the problem, 'Oh. My John Adams credit card was denied? Ok. Here's my Quincy Adams. Denied? Hmmm. Here's my George Washington.'
I remember one time when I was working as a security guard (pays for stuff while you're in college). Anyway, no one came in to replace me. As a security guard you can't just leave your post. Called in, they freaked out and said they'd get someone right on it. 8 hours later STILL no one came in to replace me. And this is after I'd worked a 16 hour shift the day before, and got woken up at 11:00 at night after only 3 hours of sleep because I was the only floater available to cover that shift. So I worked 40 hours in 2 days. How did they get around paying me any over time? That was the last time I worked that week. 40 hours/week = regular pay.
Yeah, I had one, too:
2004-03-03 18:41:45 Dueling Virus writers (articles,security) (rejected)
Ack, where are mod points when ya need em? :)
Good god how I wish I could save money. First I'm laid off, but fiance has a solid job. Rack up debt while she's working, cause I have to pay for house and car and food (and lectricity and such). Finally get a job of my own and then fiance gets canned. At least I was able to pay off most of my debt while both of us were working, now I'm just trying not to get into more debt.
Hitler was a vegitarian. He had horrible gas. :)
Actually given that most cds have tons of songs on em that suck, 200 tracks could come from 150-200 different albums. So you've got that one N'Sync song, and then that one Brittany song, and then that one J.Lo song... it adds up. Maybe that's what the music industry is thinking... Otherwise I can't make heads nor tails of it.
The anger I feel has turned cold. I want to find whoever did this, if it's bin Laden or whoever, and I want to find his friends and family and I want to bomb them. Not necessarily to death, just bomb the lower part of a building they are in so that flames start, and can't be quenched and the building slowly collapses. Then don't let anyone know if there are any survivors so that he can sit back and ask, 'Did my little girl make it out? Did my wife make it?'. I want him to feel that pain, that confusion, that dawning horror that maybe he lost something precious, and he'll never get it back. And then, slowly, over the course of many many days bring him tantalizing news, 'Oh... maybe one of them made it out... Maybe'.
Every time I hear a story of someone who was working on the 100th floor, who is missing, who may be in a hospital, may not, I feel this incredible sadness followed by cold rage. How dare they?!? How dare they do this?!? I want to give blood, I want to go to New York and help with the cleanup and rebuilding. I want to fly out to Afghanistan and find the ones who did this and make them suffer the same things I see on the television time and time again, 'Have you seen my son? My wife? My brother?'.
But I can't do that, and it wouldn't be fair to those friends and relatives. To do that would be to commit an act of terrorism, and that I would never want to do. That would make me the same as that cowardly shit hiding behind suicide bombers and suicide pilots.
I'm waiting to give blood because the bloodbanks are full. I will do it next week because blood is always a valuable commodity. I can't go out to New York because I have friends and family and a house and a job here. The act of terror was meant to disrupt the jobs and lives of Americans, and the fact that I'm here at work today means they failed.
We could call it the Butter Bot competition then. :)
At the bottom of the page it mentions that this will be for the 4-H Foundation.
Is that like pronouncing Jello Jay Ee El El Oh? It's always been SCSI = scuzzy. :)
Hey, I may work in a cube, but I have a window looking out on a lake. And a few weeks ago I guess that a snapping turtle laid her eggs right under my window, because today they hatched. I got to watch about 42 or 43 little baby snapping turtles take their first steps in the world. The only sad thing is that my contract ends in 3 weeks and then I'm out of here. Oh well. :)
I didn't recieve the call, but I was having problems so I called in. I got 'your estimate wait time is 83 minutes'. I waited 80+ minutes and click it sounded like it was transfered, followed by silence, followed by disconnection. Then I called back to hear that the new estimated wait time was 87 minutes. At this point I had 0 online connectivity, so I really had nothing else to do. :) When I finally did get through to someone, found out what I needed to do... I did that and everything was golden. I don't mind waiting on hold if I get fixed after waiting. I also appreciate the poor folks who had to work weekends and such with calls coming in nonstop.
I've been using one of these for about 6 months now. I got it refurbished (whoopidy doo, it still works great). The biggest problem I've found with all laptops is the mouse. Do you get the touchpad? The pencil eraser? Some sort of rollerball? What? I hate the touchpad, I hate the rollerball. The pencil eraser (IBM) is good.
I am repeating what someone else said in another post. I can't find it now, but I found it to be extremly interesting. After years of living in the 'cold war', we now have a Russian citizen who is fighting to LEAVE the U.S and go BACK to Russia where he can be free to express himself. Why is our government holding this man against his will? Why have the FBI not been brought up on charges of kidnapping? This is basically what they are doing. They are holding him against his will in some cell somewhere. If there hasn't been a horrid miscarriage of justice somewhere, I would be surprised. Please please please Jon Katz, keep this thing in the light, keep the fight up. Don't let this die. Free Dmitry!
And remember to vote at the bottom. The more votes the better. The more people that see this and read it, the more chance that this won't just get 'lost' in the media. The sooner he gets home to his family the better.
The linked story above, From MSNBC is one of the better pieces I've seen. It rips on the DMCA as well as having all the facts together. Please go there and at the bottom is a spot where you can vote for how important this story was so that other people can see it. I think it's pretty important. Here's the info about the author: Siva Vaidhyanathan, a cultural historian and media scholar, is the author of "Copyrights and Copywrongs: The Rise of Intellectual Property and How it Threatens Creativity." He teaches information studies at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
I wonder what would happen if we put DeCSS on one of those cds? Would MPAA have to send lawyers to take this satellite out? Or would lawyers be on hand to sue our decendants when they opened this thing up in 50,000 years? :)
I originally tried to get this posted on the 10th. What interests me more than the x-box is the picture of the actual X-box (or the one that's in this article from ZDNet ). That's gotta be one of the coolest cases I've ever seen. I wish they had more pictures of them, maybe with specs for how the motherboard fits in there, etc...