I know quite a few hardcare, Bible thumping Brits who could give any Missouri Pentecostal a run for his money. A few from Down Under as well.
Off point, however, I find that many "foreigners" somehow believe what they see on TV and movies about the US is actually true. I had a Brit ask me to show him the gun I must obviously be concealing. I told him I only carry when driving K.I.T. around chasing drug kingpins with Bruce Willis.
I will NEVER get over the theft of my vote by the Republican facists and their Supreme Court toadies.
They should be in jail, not in office.
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Nonsense.
Most successful business people manipulate their workers with false claims of "loyalty". It makes perfect sense from a business standpoint but it is clearly a lie nevertheless. The only rational loyalty is to the bottom line.
Employees on the other hand are often not bottom line driven. They have emotional and personal needs their jobs fill which are beyond simply getting a paycheck. Good businessmen take advantage of this emotional weakness and profit from it.
Loyality from employers is not "declining" - it never existed.
There are less than 3000 Indians on 20 reservations in eastern San Diego County. 8 of these 20 reservations have casinos of varying size - most have slots, blackjack, poker, buffet dining and valet parking.
One of the casinos biggest is on the Pala, which rolled out the first phase of this wireless project. Pala has a huge advertising budget and attracts tens of thousands of gamblers from all over Southern California. Most (all?) of these casinos are nominally fronted by Indians but are actually built, managed and operated day-by-day by Nevada gaming companies.
The casinos have been a finincial bonanza to these reservations and, frankly, good for them. However, this story is NOT about poor rural Native Americans with limited prospects being given a leg up with modern technology.
Actually, I have lots of things to hide - and none of it is criminal behavior. Don't I have the right to simple anonymity in my daily life? Why must all my transactions and interactions be scrutinized and dissected by the government so that urban paranoids can sleep at night?
Why don't you write up a list of where you are going to be every day and deliver it to the police so that they will know you are not out commiting crimes? Oh, thats right. It's ME you want them to watch, isn't it?
It's not your privacy you're giving up - it's mine.
Actually, I misread a story on the BBC website. My mistake, you're absolutely correct that I should have thought more about it more. However, your comments were obnoxious. Perhaps if you didn't post anonymously you would stop to consider before being so rude.
As I understand it, overseas servicemen's absentee ballots have to be POSTMARKED within 10 days of the election day. At the margins we're looking at now ( 1000 votes) each unvoted overseas Floridian soldier really counts. Will the campaign continue, with each camp trying to woo these voters if the margin remains this close? Will they try to find these people and individually persuade them?
Whoever wins, I think the best outcome would be for the popular winner to lose the electoral collage. I think this would signal an end to this archaic system and finally give a voice to viable third parties and their candidates.
My prediction, however, is that if this occurs the loser's party, (whichever one it is) will join the winner in attempting to maintain the current system, as the status quo is far more important than an individual presidential election for either party.
This is not a free speech issue. It is a HARRASSMENT issue, regardless of the relative size do the participants.
Placing limits on some speech does not automatically limit free speech. Granted, it is a slippery slope, but in this PARTICULAR instance the vehement protest to this decision seems misplaced at best and hysterical at worst.
I personally don't believe the ability to shout requires me to listen. Quite the contrary, in fact.
I have no idea what Zuccarini's complaint was with Guinness but it is more than apparent that he registered these domains with the intent to harrass them.
Why would I want to support this kind of childish behavior?
How much LESS would you be willing to be paid to do this work Mike? If your company is so "neat" and you like what you do why don't you give back some of your salary to that they can be even more successful?
Clearly this is a silly concept, but your post makes no sense. It's not a ideology, it's a BUSINESS you work for, and they exist to make money and nothing else. You are simply an unavoidable business expense, and if they could
get rid of you they would.
And BTW, if you need to get up three times a night to fix problems then either your systems are poorly designed and maintained or you are terribly understaffed. I hope you have stock options because if not someone is lining their pockets with the sweat of your brow.
Until I moved last year I had @home cable and was pretty satisfied by the service. The tech support was questionable but service was fast and reliable. I think I had 2 outages in 18mos, although both lasted about 24 hours.
I intended to get the same at my new house but the cable company didn't offer it. I looked at several DSL companies and settled on CTS, a local (San Diego) ISP that just started reselling Covad service.
Coming up on one year I have had only 2 outages (that I was aware of) and both were fixed with one phone call in about 10 minutes. Installation was easy, MOSTLY I believe because I already had a conditioned phone line (ISDN) so the idiots at PacBell didn't have to come out and try to make it work. It took 2 weeks from order to installation.
The major disadvantage is the cost: the DSL modem was $600 and monthly charges run about $75 (ADSL 768/384) with a one year contract and 2 static IP's. They had no rental option (like the cable modem) and the DSL modem does not have a built in firewall.
Overall, my DSL experience has been very good. In fact, my cable company is now offering @home for about $40 but I am going to stick with the DSL.
Well, LOVE Microsoft all YOU want but your are engaging in an interesting double standard. You are judging the DOJ for playing hardball but somehow Microsoft escapes the same scrutiny. They're waiting to see if the next Administration will be more favorable to them? What does that have to do with the facts in this case?
It seems to me that Mr. Gates has purchased himself much more due process than this case warrants, given the fact that Microsoft is clearly guilty of Anti-Trust violations in both the evidence against him AND in the court's judgment.
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I know quite a few hardcare, Bible thumping Brits who could give any Missouri Pentecostal a run for his money. A few from Down Under as well.
Off point, however, I find that many "foreigners" somehow believe what they see on TV and movies about the US is actually true. I had a Brit ask me to show him the gun I must obviously be concealing. I told him I only carry when driving K.I.T. around chasing drug kingpins with Bruce Willis.
That seemed to satisfy him.
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I will NEVER get over the theft of my vote by the Republican facists and their Supreme Court toadies.
They should be in jail, not in office.
Nonsense.
Most successful business people manipulate their workers with false claims of "loyalty". It makes perfect sense from a business standpoint but it is clearly a lie nevertheless. The only rational loyalty is to the bottom line.
Employees on the other hand are often not bottom line driven. They have emotional and personal needs their jobs fill which are beyond simply getting a paycheck. Good businessmen take advantage of this emotional weakness and profit from it.
Loyality from employers is not "declining" - it never existed.
There are less than 3000 Indians on 20 reservations in eastern San Diego County. 8 of these 20 reservations have casinos of varying size - most have slots, blackjack, poker, buffet dining and valet parking.
One of the casinos biggest is on the Pala, which rolled out the first phase of this wireless project. Pala has a huge advertising budget and attracts tens of thousands of gamblers from all over Southern California. Most (all?) of these casinos are nominally fronted by Indians but are actually built, managed and operated day-by-day by Nevada gaming companies.
The casinos have been a finincial bonanza to these reservations and, frankly, good for them. However, this story is NOT about poor rural Native Americans with limited prospects being given a leg up with modern technology.
Actually, I have lots of things to hide - and none of it is criminal behavior. Don't I have the right to simple anonymity in my daily life? Why must all my transactions and interactions be scrutinized and dissected by the government so that urban paranoids can sleep at night?
Why don't you write up a list of where you are going to be every day and deliver it to the police so that they will know you are not out commiting crimes? Oh, thats right. It's ME you want them to watch, isn't it?
It's not your privacy you're giving up - it's mine.
Actually, I misread a story on the BBC website. My mistake, you're absolutely correct that I should have thought more about it more. However, your comments were obnoxious. Perhaps if you didn't post anonymously you would stop to consider before being so rude.
As I understand it, overseas servicemen's absentee ballots have to be POSTMARKED within 10 days of the election day. At the margins we're looking at now ( 1000 votes) each unvoted overseas Floridian soldier really counts. Will the campaign continue, with each camp trying to woo these voters if the margin remains this close? Will they try to find these people and individually persuade them?
Whoever wins, I think the best outcome would be for the popular winner to lose the electoral collage. I think this would signal an end to this archaic system and finally give a voice to viable third parties and their candidates.
My prediction, however, is that if this occurs the loser's party, (whichever one it is) will join the winner in attempting to maintain the current system, as the status quo is far more important than an individual presidential election for either party.
This is not a free speech issue. It is a HARRASSMENT issue, regardless of the relative size do the participants. Placing limits on some speech does not automatically limit free speech. Granted, it is a slippery slope, but in this PARTICULAR instance the vehement protest to this decision seems misplaced at best and hysterical at worst. I personally don't believe the ability to shout requires me to listen. Quite the contrary, in fact.
I have no idea what Zuccarini's complaint was with Guinness but it is more than apparent that he registered these domains with the intent to harrass them.
Why would I want to support this kind of childish behavior?
How much LESS would you be willing to be paid to do this work Mike? If your company is so "neat" and you like what you do why don't you give back some of your salary to that they can be even more successful?
Clearly this is a silly concept, but your post makes no sense. It's not a ideology, it's a BUSINESS you work for, and they exist to make money and nothing else. You are simply an unavoidable business expense, and if they could
get rid of you they would.
And BTW, if you need to get up three times a night to fix problems then either your systems are poorly designed and maintained or you are terribly understaffed. I hope you have stock options because if not someone is lining their pockets with the sweat of your brow.
When I work, I get paid. You should too.
Until I moved last year I had @home cable and was pretty satisfied by the service. The tech support was questionable but service was fast and reliable. I think I had 2 outages in 18mos, although both lasted about 24 hours. I intended to get the same at my new house but the cable company didn't offer it. I looked at several DSL companies and settled on CTS, a local (San Diego) ISP that just started reselling Covad service. Coming up on one year I have had only 2 outages (that I was aware of) and both were fixed with one phone call in about 10 minutes. Installation was easy, MOSTLY I believe because I already had a conditioned phone line (ISDN) so the idiots at PacBell didn't have to come out and try to make it work. It took 2 weeks from order to installation. The major disadvantage is the cost: the DSL modem was $600 and monthly charges run about $75 (ADSL 768/384) with a one year contract and 2 static IP's. They had no rental option (like the cable modem) and the DSL modem does not have a built in firewall. Overall, my DSL experience has been very good. In fact, my cable company is now offering @home for about $40 but I am going to stick with the DSL.
Well, LOVE Microsoft all YOU want but your are engaging in an interesting double standard. You are judging the DOJ for playing hardball but somehow Microsoft escapes the same scrutiny. They're waiting to see if the next Administration will be more favorable to them? What does that have to do with the facts in this case? It seems to me that Mr. Gates has purchased himself much more due process than this case warrants, given the fact that Microsoft is clearly guilty of Anti-Trust violations in both the evidence against him AND in the court's judgment.