This is exactly what I was thinking.
Now that they've split up, the head of "Access" is likely trying to optimize profits. (Are profits per subscriber lower for broadband?)
Meanwhile, dial-up serves as an enabler of all the other services AOL provides.
I would think they would be getting rid of dial up connections, not the broadband.
From the article:
Most of AOL's 23 million subscribers receive standard dialup service for $24 a month.
Why would they get rid of most of their customers? Undoubtedly, this is a decision based on the ROI. Sure, their revenues per subscriber might be higher for broadband, but dial-up may have a higher profit per subscriber.
I probably would have gotten something out of your posting but the way you wrote it, running on and on with no paragraphs run-on sentences no capitalization and lots of elipses...and so forth...I couldn't follow it and it's really hard to learn stuff when you have to read and read and read and what a burden to learn it's just easier to ask people to help you and to do the minimum to get by and eat and watch a lot of TV and...
I recently moved to Iowa from Minnesota, registered to vote by mail, and received a registration card where my birth year was listed as "19yx" instead of "19xy."
I called the auditor's office and the woman I talked to confirmed that I filled out my registration card correctly, but someone in their office mis-typed it into the system. She told me, "It's a good thing you called. If you had a problem voting and the poll worker called to verify your registration, we would have told them, 'No...there's nobody with that name, at that address, born in 19xy.'"
Supposedly it's been corrected, but I never received a new card.
Provisional ballots cast in wrong precincts will not count.
From the Cedar Rapids Gazette:
DES MOINES -- Iowa election officials will not count provisional ballots cast in the wrong precinct Tuesday night but will set them aside and count them later if there is a challenge after the election.
In 2000, two voters in Linn county refused to go to the correct precint.
Seriously, that should have been a cinch to answer
Yes! Tell it Senator Kerry:
Tell us about a time when you had an honest change of opinion . . .
Senator John Kerry Responds:
It is important for leaders to tell the truth to the American people. If the leaders get the facts wrong then they should admit it. If leaders form their opinions based on a set of facts and they learn that those facts are wrong, it is appropriate to change their position. American government works best when it works based on trust and honesty.
Also, he is letting his faith stand in the way of his job as president. For this reason alone he should be tossed out.
This is, of course, a debate that will never be resolved, for others would say, "He is letting his faith guide his job as president. For this reason alone he should be re-elected."
If you don't agree with his decisions, it's your right to vote against him.
As for me, I'd rather the President be a man of conviction, who makes decisions and stands by them (even if I don't always agree with them).
This would also explain why NO WHERE in the bible does it condone lesbians.
I'm not so sure about that. Can you explain Romans 1:26?
26 Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones.27In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion.
Of course, President Bush is a Christian (not an Orthodox Jew) yet each passage you've cited is from the Old Testament (almost all from Leviticus, in fact) without regard for Jesus's teaching as recorded in the New Testament.
For example:
6. Not in the sight of God. Sin is sin. This is one lesson of the Beatitudes (Matthew 5). "'You have heard that it was said to the people long ago, "Do not murder, and anyone who murders will be subject to judgment." But I tell you that anyone who is angry with his brother will be subject to judgment. . . . You have heard that it was said, "Do not commit adultery." But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart.'"
9. From Romans 14:14, 22-23. "As one who is in the Lord Jesus, I am fully convinced that [nothing] is unclean in itself. But if anyone regards something as unclean, then for him it is unclean. . . . Blessed is the man who does not condemn himself by what he approves. But the man who has doubts is condemned if he eats, because his eating is not from faith; and everything that does not come from faith is sin."
I have this matrix up in my cubicle. (My copy is credited as Franklin Covey's Time Management Matrix.)
In my last job, I felt like my manager didn't know the difference between urgent and important, either--but in a different way than you described. She *hated* for anyone in our department to "be the gate" to something getting done. If you had an open action item or somebody else was depending on you to complete a task, she was all over you. Even if it wasn't important.
This is one of the reasons I left that company (though she preceded me): many people viewed work as a "hot potato." Don't worry about doing it right, just get it out of your hands as quickly as possible.
You're right. In fact, the parent post need only read the first sentence. This legislation was enacted:
[1] To deter and punish terrorist acts in the United States and around the world, [2] to enhance law enforcement investigatory tools, and [3] for other purposes.
[numbering and emphasis added]
The Prince had always liked his London, when it had come to him; he was one of the modern Romans who find by the Thames a more convincing image of the truth of the ancient state than any they have left by the Tiber. Brought up on the legend of the City to which the world paid tribute, he recognised in the present London much more than in contemporary Rome the real dimensions of such a case. If it was a question of an Imperium, he said to himself, and if one wished, as a Roman, to recover a little the sense of that, the place to do so was on London Bridge, or even, on a fine afternoon in May, at Hyde Park Corner. It was not indeed to either of those places that these grounds of his predilection, after all sufficiently vague, had, at the moment we are concerned with him, guided his steps; he had strayed, simply enough, into Bond Street, where his imagination, working at comparatively short range, caused him now and then to stop before a window in which objects massive and lumpish, in silver and gold, in the forms to which precious stones contribute, or in leather, steel, brass, applied to a hundred uses and abuses, were as tumbled together as if, in the insolence of the Empire, they had been the loot of far-off victories. The young man's movements, however, betrayed no consistency of attention--not even, for that matter, when one of his arrests had proceeded from possibilities in faces shaded, as they passed him on the pavement, by huge beribboned hats, or more delicately tinted still under the tense silk of parasols held at perverse angles in waiting victorias. And the Prince's undirected thought was not a little symptomatic, since, though the turn of the season had come and the flush of the streets begun to fade, the possibilities of faces, on the August afternoon, were still one of the notes of the scene. He was too restless--that was the fact--for any concentration, and the last idea that would just now have occurred to him in any connection was the idea of pursuit.
He had been pursuing for six months as never in his life before, and what had actually unsteadied him, as we join him, was the sense of how he had been justified. Capture had crowned the pursuit--or success, as he would otherwise have put it, had rewarded virtue; whereby the consciousness of these things made him, for the hour, rather serious than gay. A sobriety that might have consorted with failure sat in his handsome face, constructively regular and grave, yet at the same time oddly and, as might be, functionally almost radiant, with its dark blue eyes, its dark brown moustache and its expression no more sharply "foreign" to an English view than to have caused it sometimes to be observed of him with a shallow felicity that he looked like a "refined" Irishman. What had happened was that shortly before, at three o'clock, his fate had practically been sealed, and that even when one pretended to no quarrel with it the moment had something of the grimness of a crunched key in the strongest lock that could be made. There was nothing to do as yet, further, but feel what one had done, and our personage felt it while he aimlessly wandered. It was already as if he were married, so definitely had the solicitors, at three o'clock, enabled the date to be fixed, and by so few days was that date now distant. He was to dine at half-past eight o'clock with the young lady on whose behalf, and on whose father's, the London lawyers had reached an inspired harmony with his own man of business, poor Calderoni, fresh from Rome and now apparently in the wondrous situation of being "shown London," before promptly leaving it again, by Mr. Verver himself, Mr. Verver whose easy way with his millions had taxed to such small purpose, in the arrangements, the principle of reciprocity. The reciprocity with which the Prince was during these minutes most struck was that of Calderoni's bestowal of hi
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And yet "copyright infringement is not theft."
This is exactly what I was thinking. Now that they've split up, the head of "Access" is likely trying to optimize profits. (Are profits per subscriber lower for broadband?) Meanwhile, dial-up serves as an enabler of all the other services AOL provides.
More on AOL for Broadband.
http://www.technoir.nu/hplx/hplx-l/9911/msg00136.h tml
From the article:
Most of AOL's 23 million subscribers receive standard dialup service for $24 a month.
Why would they get rid of most of their customers? Undoubtedly, this is a decision based on the ROI. Sure, their revenues per subscriber might be higher for broadband, but dial-up may have a higher profit per subscriber.
I probably would have gotten something out of your posting but the way you wrote it, running on and on with no paragraphs run-on sentences no capitalization and lots of elipses...and so forth...I couldn't follow it and it's really hard to learn stuff when you have to read and read and read and what a burden to learn it's just easier to ask people to help you and to do the minimum to get by and eat and watch a lot of TV and...
According to this artice, "tests showed his brain hemispheres are not separated, forming a single, large 'data storage' area" (emphasis added).
The patent you saw could have been a design patent (different from a utility patent; see definitions), such as D485,810.
It could have been a utility patent, like 6,469,247, though.
The patent office doesn't pick the title. The inventor or attorney probably did.
Just because it has a broad title doesn't mean the claims aren't very specific.
I recently moved to Iowa from Minnesota, registered to vote by mail, and received a registration card where my birth year was listed as "19yx" instead of "19xy."
I called the auditor's office and the woman I talked to confirmed that I filled out my registration card correctly, but someone in their office mis-typed it into the system. She told me, "It's a good thing you called. If you had a problem voting and the poll worker called to verify your registration, we would have told them, 'No...there's nobody with that name, at that address, born in 19xy.'"
Supposedly it's been corrected, but I never received a new card.
Here's hoping I can vote today!
Also interesting, 'cause I thought there were 538!
Provisional ballots cast in wrong precincts will not count.
From the Cedar Rapids Gazette:
DES MOINES -- Iowa election officials will not count provisional ballots cast in the wrong precinct Tuesday night but will set them aside and count them later if there is a challenge after the election.
In 2000, two voters in Linn county refused to go to the correct precint.
In the battleground state of Iowa, though, officials recently announced that provisional ballots won't be counted unless the results are challenged.
(Can't find a link now. Will post if I do.)
Yes! Tell it Senator Kerry:
Tell us about a time when you had an honest change of opinion . . .
Senator John Kerry Responds:
It is important for leaders to tell the truth to the American people. If the leaders get the facts wrong then they should admit it. If leaders form their opinions based on a set of facts and they learn that those facts are wrong, it is appropriate to change their position. American government works best when it works based on trust and honesty.
Nice specific answer!
It returns: "Fruit flies like a banana."
This is, of course, a debate that will never be resolved, for others would say, "He is letting his faith guide his job as president. For this reason alone he should be re-elected."
If you don't agree with his decisions, it's your right to vote against him.
As for me, I'd rather the President be a man of conviction, who makes decisions and stands by them (even if I don't always agree with them).
Because it's still condemned in the New Testament. (Romans 1:26 - 27, for example.)
The original poster illustrates well the dangers of ignorance (regarding Christian theology, in this case) and taking quotes out of context.
I'm not so sure about that. Can you explain Romans 1:26?
Of course, President Bush is a Christian (not an Orthodox Jew) yet each passage you've cited is from the Old Testament (almost all from Leviticus, in fact) without regard for Jesus's teaching as recorded in the New Testament.
For example:
6. Not in the sight of God. Sin is sin. This is one lesson of the Beatitudes (Matthew 5). "'You have heard that it was said to the people long ago, "Do not murder, and anyone who murders will be subject to judgment." But I tell you that anyone who is angry with his brother will be subject to judgment. . . . You have heard that it was said, "Do not commit adultery." But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart.'"
9. From Romans 14:14, 22-23. "As one who is in the Lord Jesus, I am fully convinced that [nothing] is unclean in itself. But if anyone regards something as unclean, then for him it is unclean. . . . Blessed is the man who does not condemn himself by what he approves. But the man who has doubts is condemned if he eats, because his eating is not from faith; and everything that does not come from faith is sin."
I would kill to work for a company that encourages hard work and rewards for a job well done.
If I started my own company, I certainly wouldn't discourage hard work and reward my employees for jobs poorly done.
I have this matrix up in my cubicle. (My copy is credited as Franklin Covey's Time Management Matrix.)
In my last job, I felt like my manager didn't know the difference between urgent and important, either--but in a different way than you described. She *hated* for anyone in our department to "be the gate" to something getting done. If you had an open action item or somebody else was depending on you to complete a task, she was all over you. Even if it wasn't important.
This is one of the reasons I left that company (though she preceded me): many people viewed work as a "hot potato." Don't worry about doing it right, just get it out of your hands as quickly as possible.
Donkeys like waffles .
Well congratulations. He stopped existing several years ago. Glad to see that you are up-to-date on your comments, though.
Glad to see you're up to date on Word. I'm running Word 2002 and one of the Office Assistant options is "Clippit."
They may have changed his name, but the lovable paper clip "helper" is still there just the same.
Even more amazing?
His office at The University of Iowa is in Van Allen Hall.
You're right. In fact, the parent post need only read the first sentence. This legislation was enacted:
[1] To deter and punish terrorist acts in the United States and around the world, [2] to enhance law enforcement investigatory tools, and [3] for other purposes. [numbering and emphasis added]
The Prince had always liked his London, when it had come to him;
he was one of the modern Romans who find by the Thames a more
convincing image of the truth of the ancient state than any they
have left by the Tiber. Brought up on the legend of the City to
which the world paid tribute, he recognised in the present London
much more than in contemporary Rome the real dimensions of such a
case. If it was a question of an Imperium, he said to himself,
and if one wished, as a Roman, to recover a little the sense of
that, the place to do so was on London Bridge, or even, on a fine
afternoon in May, at Hyde Park Corner. It was not indeed to
either of those places that these grounds of his predilection,
after all sufficiently vague, had, at the moment we are concerned
with him, guided his steps; he had strayed, simply enough, into
Bond Street, where his imagination, working at comparatively
short range, caused him now and then to stop before a window in
which objects massive and lumpish, in silver and gold, in the
forms to which precious stones contribute, or in leather, steel,
brass, applied to a hundred uses and abuses, were as tumbled
together as if, in the insolence of the Empire, they had been the
loot of far-off victories. The young man's movements, however,
betrayed no consistency of attention--not even, for that matter,
when one of his arrests had proceeded from possibilities in faces
shaded, as they passed him on the pavement, by huge beribboned
hats, or more delicately tinted still under the tense silk of
parasols held at perverse angles in waiting victorias. And the
Prince's undirected thought was not a little symptomatic, since,
though the turn of the season had come and the flush of the
streets begun to fade, the possibilities of faces, on the August
afternoon, were still one of the notes of the scene. He was too
restless--that was the fact--for any concentration, and the last
idea that would just now have occurred to him in any connection
was the idea of pursuit.
He had been pursuing for six months as never in his life before,
and what had actually unsteadied him, as we join him, was the
sense of how he had been justified. Capture had crowned the
pursuit--or success, as he would otherwise have put it, had
rewarded virtue; whereby the consciousness of these things made
him, for the hour, rather serious than gay. A sobriety that might
have consorted with failure sat in his handsome face,
constructively regular and grave, yet at the same time oddly and,
as might be, functionally almost radiant, with its dark blue
eyes, its dark brown moustache and its expression no more sharply
"foreign" to an English view than to have caused it sometimes to
be observed of him with a shallow felicity that he looked like a
"refined" Irishman. What had happened was that shortly before, at
three o'clock, his fate had practically been sealed, and that
even when one pretended to no quarrel with it the moment had
something of the grimness of a crunched key in the strongest lock
that could be made. There was nothing to do as yet, further, but
feel what one had done, and our personage felt it while he
aimlessly wandered. It was already as if he were married, so
definitely had the solicitors, at three o'clock, enabled the date
to be fixed, and by so few days was that date now distant. He
was to dine at half-past eight o'clock with the young lady on
whose behalf, and on whose father's, the London lawyers had
reached an inspired harmony with his own man of business, poor
Calderoni, fresh from Rome and now apparently in the wondrous
situation of being "shown London," before promptly leaving it
again, by Mr. Verver himself, Mr. Verver whose easy way with his
millions had taxed to such small purpose, in the arrangements,
the principle of reciprocity. The reciprocity with which the
Prince was during these minutes most struck was that of
Calderoni's bestowal of hi