Several stations local to me don't even offer air anymore. At the ones that do the charge is $.25. Sad isn't it? At least I'll be able to tell my grandkids "when I was your age air was free".
We had to read a short story in school that the movie could have been based on. A swarm of killer ants come out of a jungle and overrun a farm somewhere in South America. The teacher taught us a good way to remember the difference between a protagonist and an antagonist was to remember that the "ant"agonist is the bad guy. 20-odd years later I can't remember the title of the story but ant=bad guy is still stuck in my head...
I'm in Libertyville all the time. Let's see, if you're coming up from the city I assume you work for one of the big companies there. Hmmm USG or VW Finance maybe? Or God-forbid, the Big M?:)
My wife commuted down to the city for years. She finally got a job up here. A mile and a half from home plus a nice raise. I've got it easy, live in VH, work in Mundelein, a little more than a mile commute. On nice days I walk to work. Not exactly commuting from my bed to the living room like working at home but not too shabby.
Wasted? Hardly. It sounds more like you are their ideal target audience.
Exactly. If I want to blow some cash gambling with pretty much no chance of winning I can go across the street and buy a lottery ticket. No waiting four hours for a (delayed) flight out of O'Hare.:)
That's pretty much what I was thinking. I'd much rather attend a convention that was more focused on a smaller segment of technology.
Since the bubble burst is there really a need for the huge monstrosity that is COMDEX?
Add to that the fact that Vegas is wasted on me (see my sig) and I'd much rather go to a small, focused convention that's more local (I'm within an hour or so drive of both Chicago and Milwaukee).
Like the e-mail I just received. Some joker wanting to put 3-D modeling of some sort on my company's website. He sent an initial e-mail last week, straight to/dev/null because we don't deal with unsolicited contacts of any kind (e-mail, phone, salesmen off the street who "happened to be in the neighborhood", etc). Today he sends a follow-up in case I "didn't receive" his last correspondance. If past experience is any indicator I'll get another e-mail from him in a couple of days. I see this every day. Perhaps the people that reported your wife as a spammer see it every day too and have a more aggressive policy than I do? How many times does your wife e-mail these companies before finally giving up and moving on? Personally I just delete it all but maybe that second "follow-up" e-mail is enough for some companies to trigger a spam complaint.
A trick I learned several years ago was when you feel like going on a walk-about, always carry a clipboard with you. No one ever stops someone carrying a clipboard.
7.) Try walking around a lot in a hurry. This makes you look busy and determined. The best strategy is to go the bathroom a lot and just pace for a minute inside. My strategy is to go to the water cooler a lot. Not only does this saturate me, but I'm seen moving all over the office busily and importantly when really I'm just taking a mental break at the water cooler and fantasizing about a life that doesn't so closely resemble Hell.
I'm was suprised that this was "news" when I heard about it last week. Back 20 or so years ago my mother worked for U.S. Gypsum here in Illinois. They tried the same exact stunt, claiming that smokers cost too much for health care and they had the right to fire people that smoked outside the office. It went absolutely nowhere. I don't even think it went to court. If it did it didn't last long. Mom was a heavy smoker at the time and never lost a day of work.
Unfortunately I've seen the result up close and personal. Well, the guy was 75 but close enough. I was stopped at a redlight (facing east)waiting for the green when the damn fool heading north blasted through the intersection and tried to make a left turn to go west. Of course he didn't bother to look ahead before making the turn so he got hit by the car going south. The guy making the turn got thrown into me. The other guy got thrown into another car that was in the left turn lane next to me. Five people went to the hospital, three cars totalled, mine was repaired because I saw it coming and floored it to get out of the way, still several thousand dollars worth of damage. After checking the car with the worst damage to make sure everyone was ok (relatively) I approached the ass that had caused the accident. He never even bothered to end the conservation. He kept right on talking until the cops came and made him hang up. Damn the rest of the people that got hurt, his conversation was more important to him.
I've been doing this for years after someone lifted a "pre-approved" credit card application and used it to get a card in my mother's name.
I actually got stung from another direction. Now I can't prove this is how it happened but it's the only thing that makes sense. A few years ago when I was getting married we decided to go to Ireland for our honeymoon (great trip by the way, we're going back in September). Anyway, to make the trip I needed to get my passport done since I hadn't been out of the country since high school. I went to a nearby post office to get my passport done. They take all of your information, including SSN. A few months after the trip I had to buy a new vehicle because I had gotten rear-ended. When they ran the financing the guy told me my credit rating wasn't good enough. Now I have always had stellar credit so I went home and ran my reports. Someone had taken my SSN and name and used it to get a Citibank account, which they promptly maxed out and defaulted on. As far as I could figure out the only place they could have matched my SSN and name was from the application for my passport since I didn't give my SSN to anyone anytime near the period that this happened. It only took me a few months to get my record cleared and now I check my reports several times a year, plus I have a flag on my report I am to be contacted personally if anyone tries to get credit using my SSN. So far no problems.
[side rant] It's always p*ssed me off that Citibank fell for this. At the time I *had* a credit card with them. You'd think something would have popped up a red flag along the lines of "existing ssn in the system, existing name in the system, completely different address requested for the new card". Oh well, at least it got fixed.
[side rant # 2] The cops of course did nothing but fill out the report. Not a slam on the cops because I've since become friends with some of the guys in my local department. Still, one of the things the person used it for was to pay off their gas bill. I gave the cops the address that the card was sent to (that shows up on your credit report as a "known address", plus the Citibank rep verified to me that was where the card was sent). How hard would it be to take that address and crossmatch it to the address the gas bill was paid on. If they match, good circumstantial evidence that *someone* at that address knows something.:)
As for online identity theft, the only time I've ever had a credit card stolen was after I made purchases on http://www.aafes.com/ which is the U.S. Army (and Airforce) Exchange website. Go figure, an "unofficial Department of Defense" site with poor security. That got cleaned up immediately (Bank One, not Citibank).
I'm actually happy with the security department at Bank One. Last summer, right after our son was born, the wife and I made a trip "behind the cheddar curtain" into Wisconsin (we live 20 miles or so south of the border). We bought some stuff at the Sony Outlet there, then some stuff at Carters for our newborn. By the time we got home there was a message for me on the answering machine. Someone had noticed "unusual" activity on our card and wanted to verify that it was correct. I like to think that the 35 year old "I'll never have kids" buying baby clothes triggered something.:)
This reminds me of growing up with my sibs. My brother would come home from school and take out the big salad bowl. Into that went a whole box of cereal and a half gallon of milk. That was just the after school snack. Mom would only shop on Saturdays so in general the cupboards were bare by Thursday. How he didn't end up 500+ pounds is beyond me. I of course only weighed about 140 pounds when I graduated highschool. I don't think I ever saw a leftover until I was 15 (when he went away to college). My wife thinks it's weird that I can still get by on one meal a day.:)
"Well, keep it reasonable...and for God's sake, cut the toll when the project was done...Once paid for..they should go away."
That's what they told us in Illinois all those decades ago. The tolls were going to be temporary. I live about 15 miles from the Wisconsin border and it currently costs me $2 just in tolls to get there and back..25 each to get on and off the tollway,.75 each way at the toll just south of the border. In addition, tomorrow the tolls double as part of the plan to force everyone onto IPass. If you go onto IPass tolls stay at their current level, prepare to pay double if you don't. What do we get for it? One of the worst highway systems in the country (Illinois was rated in the bottom five states by the American Trucker Magazine annual survey the last time I checked, a couple of years ago).
Believe me, once government gets their mitts on a tax it never goes away.
Face nothing, mine goes for distance. I learned quickly to keep him covered so I only got splashed a couple of times. The wife was a little slower on the uptake. Before she got consistant with the covering he had christened the floor, the wall, a lamp, a plant five feet away, etc. I swear his goal is to hit the ceiling.
Nah, just tired. Four month old at home. You'd think all of my days-on-end gaming events would have prepared me for the sleep deprevation. Babies add a whole other dimension to not sleeping...
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Several stations local to me don't even offer air anymore. At the ones that do the charge is $.25. Sad isn't it? At least I'll be able to tell my grandkids "when I was your age air was free".
We had to read a short story in school that the movie could have been based on. A swarm of killer ants come out of a jungle and overrun a farm somewhere in South America. The teacher taught us a good way to remember the difference between a protagonist and an antagonist was to remember that the "ant"agonist is the bad guy. 20-odd years later I can't remember the title of the story but ant=bad guy is still stuck in my head...
I'm in Libertyville all the time. Let's see, if you're coming up from the city I assume you work for one of the big companies there. Hmmm USG or VW Finance maybe? Or God-forbid, the Big M? :)
My wife commuted down to the city for years. She finally got a job up here. A mile and a half from home plus a nice raise. I've got it easy, live in VH, work in Mundelein, a little more than a mile commute. On nice days I walk to work. Not exactly commuting from my bed to the living room like working at home but not too shabby.
Wasted? Hardly. It sounds more like you are their ideal target audience.
:)
Exactly. If I want to blow some cash gambling with pretty much no chance of winning I can go across the street and buy a lottery ticket. No waiting four hours for a (delayed) flight out of O'Hare.
Ke-nowhere? Nope, Vernon Hills. 10 minutes from 94. Not quite halfway between Chicago and Milwaukee but close enough.
That's pretty much what I was thinking. I'd much rather attend a convention that was more focused on a smaller segment of technology.
Since the bubble burst is there really a need for the huge monstrosity that is COMDEX?
Add to that the fact that Vegas is wasted on me (see my sig) and I'd much rather go to a small, focused convention that's more local (I'm within an hour or so drive of both Chicago and Milwaukee).
most Americans think Vancouver, WA
There's a Vancouver in Washington? I guess I'm not part of your "most" since when I hear Vancouver I immediately think of BC.
But don't republicans have all the guns?
You can't have a movie where it says that in the future women won't be allowed in the military.
Actually in the book he goes into detail explaining that all the Navy pilots are female because they have better reflexes.
so tell me, how many people does one beat up to create a wheel? how many throats does one slit to irrigate a field with river water?
42?
Like the e-mail I just received. Some joker wanting to put 3-D modeling of some sort on my company's website. He sent an initial e-mail last week, straight to /dev/null because we don't deal with unsolicited contacts of any kind (e-mail, phone, salesmen off the street who "happened to be in the neighborhood", etc). Today he sends a follow-up in case I "didn't receive" his last correspondance. If past experience is any indicator I'll get another e-mail from him in a couple of days. I see this every day. Perhaps the people that reported your wife as a spammer see it every day too and have a more aggressive policy than I do? How many times does your wife e-mail these companies before finally giving up and moving on? Personally I just delete it all but maybe that second "follow-up" e-mail is enough for some companies to trigger a spam complaint.
A trick I learned several years ago was when you feel like going on a walk-about, always carry a clipboard with you. No one ever stops someone carrying a clipboard.
7.) Try walking around a lot in a hurry. This makes you look busy and determined. The best strategy is to go the bathroom a lot and just pace for a minute inside. My strategy is to go to the water cooler a lot. Not only does this saturate me, but I'm seen moving all over the office busily and importantly when really I'm just taking a mental break at the water cooler and fantasizing about a life that doesn't so closely resemble Hell.
I hate to burst your bubble there but I got the same thing and I live near Chicago. It's probably just a default...
Even used some kind of GeoIP to pre-fill a location in my city (10 market, san francisco).
I'm was suprised that this was "news" when I heard about it last week. Back 20 or so years ago my mother worked for U.S. Gypsum here in Illinois. They tried the same exact stunt, claiming that smokers cost too much for health care and they had the right to fire people that smoked outside the office. It went absolutely nowhere. I don't even think it went to court. If it did it didn't last long. Mom was a heavy smoker at the time and never lost a day of work.
Unfortunately I've seen the result up close and personal. Well, the guy was 75 but close enough. I was stopped at a redlight (facing east)waiting for the green when the damn fool heading north blasted through the intersection and tried to make a left turn to go west. Of course he didn't bother to look ahead before making the turn so he got hit by the car going south. The guy making the turn got thrown into me. The other guy got thrown into another car that was in the left turn lane next to me. Five people went to the hospital, three cars totalled, mine was repaired because I saw it coming and floored it to get out of the way, still several thousand dollars worth of damage. After checking the car with the worst damage to make sure everyone was ok (relatively) I approached the ass that had caused the accident. He never even bothered to end the conservation. He kept right on talking until the cops came and made him hang up. Damn the rest of the people that got hurt, his conversation was more important to him.
I've been doing this for years after someone lifted a "pre-approved" credit card application and used it to get a card in my mother's name.
:)
:)
I actually got stung from another direction. Now I can't prove this is how it happened but it's the only thing that makes sense. A few years ago when I was getting married we decided to go to Ireland for our honeymoon (great trip by the way, we're going back in September). Anyway, to make the trip I needed to get my passport done since I hadn't been out of the country since high school. I went to a nearby post office to get my passport done. They take all of your information, including SSN. A few months after the trip I had to buy a new vehicle because I had gotten rear-ended. When they ran the financing the guy told me my credit rating wasn't good enough. Now I have always had stellar credit so I went home and ran my reports. Someone had taken my SSN and name and used it to get a Citibank account, which they promptly maxed out and defaulted on. As far as I could figure out the only place they could have matched my SSN and name was from the application for my passport since I didn't give my SSN to anyone anytime near the period that this happened. It only took me a few months to get my record cleared and now I check my reports several times a year, plus I have a flag on my report I am to be contacted personally if anyone tries to get credit using my SSN. So far no problems.
[side rant] It's always p*ssed me off that Citibank fell for this. At the time I *had* a credit card with them. You'd think something would have popped up a red flag along the lines of "existing ssn in the system, existing name in the system, completely different address requested for the new card". Oh well, at least it got fixed.
[side rant # 2] The cops of course did nothing but fill out the report. Not a slam on the cops because I've since become friends with some of the guys in my local department. Still, one of the things the person used it for was to pay off their gas bill. I gave the cops the address that the card was sent to (that shows up on your credit report as a "known address", plus the Citibank rep verified to me that was where the card was sent). How hard would it be to take that address and crossmatch it to the address the gas bill was paid on. If they match, good circumstantial evidence that *someone* at that address knows something.
As for online identity theft, the only time I've ever had a credit card stolen was after I made purchases on http://www.aafes.com/ which is the U.S. Army (and Airforce) Exchange website. Go figure, an "unofficial Department of Defense" site with poor security. That got cleaned up immediately (Bank One, not Citibank).
I'm actually happy with the security department at Bank One. Last summer, right after our son was born, the wife and I made a trip "behind the cheddar curtain" into Wisconsin (we live 20 miles or so south of the border). We bought some stuff at the Sony Outlet there, then some stuff at Carters for our newborn. By the time we got home there was a message for me on the answering machine. Someone had noticed "unusual" activity on our card and wanted to verify that it was correct. I like to think that the 35 year old "I'll never have kids" buying baby clothes triggered something.
Gack, so much for reading /. on my lunchbreak...
Ocean's Eleven that came out in 2001 was a remake of the 1960 "Rat Pack" movie of the same name. That makes Ocean's Twelve a sequel to a remake.
This reminds me of growing up with my sibs. My brother would come home from school and take out the big salad bowl. Into that went a whole box of cereal and a half gallon of milk. That was just the after school snack. Mom would only shop on Saturdays so in general the cupboards were bare by Thursday. How he didn't end up 500+ pounds is beyond me. I of course only weighed about 140 pounds when I graduated highschool. I don't think I ever saw a leftover until I was 15 (when he went away to college). My wife thinks it's weird that I can still get by on one meal a day. :)
"Well, keep it reasonable...and for God's sake, cut the toll when the project was done...Once paid for..they should go away."
.25 each to get on and off the tollway, .75 each way at the toll just south of the border. In addition, tomorrow the tolls double as part of the plan to force everyone onto IPass. If you go onto IPass tolls stay at their current level, prepare to pay double if you don't. What do we get for it? One of the worst highway systems in the country (Illinois was rated in the bottom five states by the American Trucker Magazine annual survey the last time I checked, a couple of years ago).
That's what they told us in Illinois all those decades ago. The tolls were going to be temporary. I live about 15 miles from the Wisconsin border and it currently costs me $2 just in tolls to get there and back.
Believe me, once government gets their mitts on a tax it never goes away.
Face nothing, mine goes for distance. I learned quickly to keep him covered so I only got splashed a couple of times. The wife was a little slower on the uptake. Before she got consistant with the covering he had christened the floor, the wall, a lamp, a plant five feet away, etc. I swear his goal is to hit the ceiling.
Yes, but could we make the other side of existing CDs writable with a hole-punch?
And McD's comes out with the Happy Meal(TM).
The location of the elusive g-spot?
Nah, just tired. Four month old at home. You'd think all of my days-on-end gaming events would have prepared me for the sleep deprevation. Babies add a whole other dimension to not sleeping...