it's the "Not Me" Decade. Where blame falls everywhere else except on me and responsibility comes from elsewhere. People are too busy these days to watch their children. This post is of no fault of my own. It's the fault of the keyboard, computer, monitor, wire, network provider and everything that gets involved in this post getting to you. Blame them. It's not me.
Sorry... your comment is too intelligent for people to understand. You'll never get 98% of the general populous to agree.
I do agree with 100% and probably more than what you said.
My federal and state taxes in 6 months of working last year equaled more than most of my friends made in a full year of work (I won't even count Soc.Sec. tax).
Roads and streetlights? I use toll roads. I pay per use for those. Local roads are taken care with the property tax, which coincidentally goes up every year. Same with schools, etc.
How is it that some states don't need a sales tax? (New Hampshire, IIRC, doens't have one. Minnesota doesn't tax life-necessary items... correct me if I'm wrong...)
Then there's the vast majority of items I don't even purchase in my local area since the taxes are too high. I go to an entirely different county or city to avoid paying tax (gas is a big one), so even right now i'm not supporting my "local" economy...
My federal and state taxes in 6 months of working last year equaled more than most of my friends made in a full year of work (I won't even count Soc.Sec. tax).
Roads and streetlights? I use toll roads. I pay per use for those. Local roads are taken care with the property tax, which coincidentally goes up every year. Same with schools, etc.
How is it that some states don't need a sales tax? (New Hampshire, IIRC, doens't have one. Minnesota doesn't tax life-necessary items... correct me if I'm wrong...)
Then there's the vast majority of items I don't even purchase in my local area since the taxes are too high. I go to an entirely different county or city to avoid paying tax (gas is a big one).
Interesting... I called up and complained that I got dinged with two different cards charging me the $29 (I paid while on business in Hawaii so of course it took longer to get there).
They both took the $29 off as a "courtesy", but only after I paid it -- so I got a $29 credit on both. Technically you're supposed to pay anything in dispute and you're responsible for any charges incurred while it is (or something like that). But I actually wrote letters and snail-mailed them certified return-receipt. I got the credit within 2 months... better than nothing.:-)
The interest thing with the banks merging works the other way too... my 18% credit card company is merging with my 9.9% credit card company... so now I have two cards at 9.9%. I just called up and complained and threatened to cancel my card. Credit cards these days are like ISPs... if you get jacked around just go get another card (keep the 24% around but don't use it if it doesn't have an annual fee for "established credit"). It works!
Common stock owned: Novell, Inc.......................................... 4,741,750 13.8% Corporate Headquarters 122 East 1700 South Provo, Utah 84606 Microsoft Corporation................................. 4,217,606 12.3% One Microsoft Way Redmond, Washington 98052-6399 Douglas L. Michels(2)................................. 4,028,400 11.7% c/o The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc. 400 Encinal Street Santa Cruz, California 95061-1900 Lawrence Michels(3)................................... 3,149,992 9.2% 30376 Snowbird Lane Evergreen, Colorado 80439
From www.edgar-online.com, proxy statement for SCOC, Jan 21 1999.
It will probably cost Intel more by disabling it since people will just either buy less, or switch to another company. By having it enabled, at least Intel is getting some money.
Actually, I'm buying a house in January, so I might be cashing some in then if necessary to cover funds/furniture/lower monthly payments/etc...
But I know you never said to do any damage to any website or business site, but who knows how angry some of these people are. At the minimum, I can just see the SEC getting the same verbal wrath poor near-sighted columnists have received by saying "Linux Sux, Windoze Roolz", you know, things that would make the whole lot of us look bad...
I don't blame you at all... perhaps commend you at pushing this cause. I must say that e-trade did drop the ball on it, but I was looking at it as that I sold my stock I had in e-trade last week in preparation for this...since then the stock dropped so far through the floor it's not funny.
So, even if I didn't get any RHAT, I'd still be ahead... I wasn't planning retirement on getting something I wasn't even guaranteed, but it sounds like some people were. I play the Big Game and PowerBall Lottery games sometimes, but I don't quit my job before the numbers are drawn...
Between the "blessing in disguise" and "pure luck" I have some "found money" to stash away for a "rainy day."
But really...at least buy some stock tomorrow at around noon or 1pm Eastern...If I didn't get in on the IPO, it what I was planning on doing, just would have bought less. I mean, if you think it might be 100 come year end, you'll double your money in 4 months:->
The stock market.. she's a funny lady that's for sure. In the 12 years I've been following it (since the 500+ point crash in October '87) I've been lucky to have a broker worry about getting me in on IPOs. This is the first one I've done alone, and most likely the last.
All the best and cheers... may all your IPO returns be big ones.
and that's all that matters in here in the good ol' US, right? Got it right around 1230pm (EDT). I didn't get a letter either.
Of course, e-trade isn't my primary trading account, nor did I shove cash into them just for this ventrue. ( I did get bonus frequent flier miles for signing up with them back in March or so though...)
To those whining about not being able to get in (especially you, WillAffleck - I *wish* I had $100 grand to sink in high-risk capital, take a valium), get a hold of yourself. I do admit I was lucky -- I went to the e-trade page today and noticed that I had an alert about the price increase. When I went back to the IPO page it said "Go Now" to place a conditional offer again. This was all in the span of like a minute, so I must have been the first person doing it.
If you must complain (and I'm not saying you shouldn't) be civil. We don't need bad press about hacking into the SEC website, the SEC getting flamed to cinders with email (F* U*, Eat my $H!+, and so forth). That will just make the whole lot of us look like we're 3.
I've read through some of the comments here and I can't bring myself to think the main demographic here is beings under 18 (most likely 15).
These are the rules. I follow them, they inforce them, you whine when you don't get your own way. You probably blame the cop for giving you a traffic ticket or your teacher for giving you an "F" on that last paper on the Moon.
Whenever I wanted to see an "R" movie, my parents went with me -- National Lampoons movies and Coming to America. For a class we watched an "R" rated movie -- we needed to get a letter signed by our parents before we could watch it in the classroom. There was no getting away from this.
Of course, I learned to **RESPECT** (gasp) the rule rather than rebel against it. I didn't agree with it, but I followed it because I didn't see the need to rebel. I mean, who needed to see it on first release. I could see it sooner or later. Now you whine that you have to wait six months before cable has it. Too bloody bad. I didn't have the luxury of cable, so I had to wait before a superstation had cut the thunder out of it.
The absolute worst (ratings wise) movie I was allowed to see was the (X or NC-17 rated) movie "The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover." Watching this movie I came back repulsed and knew why it had such a rating. Would you like your child to see someone getting feces rubbed all over their body. Or perhaps the imagery of canniballism would do better? Both are in this movie. Today, it bothers me no more, but as a teenager, it confused the heck out of me.
I just can not understand why the big hulabaloo over such a petty topic. Maybe it's that I'm "old fashioned," but I am prepared to be an integral part of my child's life. There are rules and no matter what those are the rules. They may be man-made and considered unfair, but believe it or not they're there for a reason.
You may think you are mature enough to watch those images on the screen, but you're not the general population. The whole United States is a prude when it comes to the discussion of that dirty word (sex) and when it comes down to it, parents, the MPAA and everyone shudder about it. Maybe we need a mentality that of Europe and South America where it's open to the point short of showing it on television (sorry if I'm wrong about this point, please forgive and correct, not flame).
Kids need to face that they're kids. You cannot sign a legal document, you cannot vote, you cannot drink or smoke (*opens a can of worms*). What makes you so damn special that the rules should be broken for *you*. Heck with you, I'm better than you are. Rules should be broken for me! Who are you?
It's just a movie. You're just a kid. Deal with it. Grow. Move on. Stop whining. Life isn't fair. Maybe if you stop whining you'll stop looking immature and people will take you seriously.
-m I want to be president of the world, but we all have our little disappointments.
For US$4000 for the phone and something like US$8 a minute it better sound like the person is in the next room!
But really, this is the absolute last thing Iridium needs... they're so far in the debt tank I feel sorry for them now. Again, another great idea far ahead of its time.
(You can see this story at the Chicago Sun-Times... today August 4th for more Iridium woes.)
Wouldn't it take a long time for a reply anyway? Isn't there a couple seconds communication delay between the earth and the moon?
I can think of millions of better things to do with eleven bucks... like buying a lot of beer, getting drunk and talking to the aliens directly.
-m
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I didn't get one -- wanted something with a built-in keyboard.
After months of searching, there was a "Managers floor display special" on a Zaurus. Picked that up for a hair over $200. The IR beaming device was $40.
2Mb ram, Wordprocessor, Spreadsheet, stylus, clipboard, notebook (for stylus writing), 3 data books, 3 phone books, vt100 and ansi terminals, fax sender, search utility, games, PCMCIA slot, the whole thing... and the keyboard:-)
I don't think it's that much larger than the Pilot either.
Right now I loaded a list of some 4500 available DVD's and going through the list as to which ones I want to buy and which ones I want to consider buying...
I use mine, but not in public situations: Me: Let me give you my office number Them: (3 minute rigamarole getting out Palm and going to application to write down number) Ok.. shoot.
And now it's gone too flipping far that it's impossible to spin it the other way.
Where will I be? I don't know. I've made no plans. Here where I live, it's usually snowing like a summabeeotch, so most likely I'll be holed up in my house anyway watching television and drinking until January 3rd. If I'm not here I'll be enjoying myself not worrying one iota about the computers, the people or the universe.
Let them all kill themselves. That will mean no traffic during rush hour on Monday when I go to work.
Mr. Spaceley made me push the button 7 times today!
But really... I too am sorry for the writer, but I worked over 4000 in 11 months. I was travelling (meaning that I was away from home for months at a time) to a different city every 3 to 10 days. At least you all seem to be working these insane hours and get to go home at the end.
I got to fly home for Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years. I flew home on the day before and left the Monday after. I finally saw that it was doing nothing but taking its toll on me and I quit.
Now I'm making more money (I was hourly then and now), and work 8 hours a week. Not a fluke -- we are all well compensated in my area -- and work 40-hour weeks -- either from home or office.
We have work-provided cell phones and/or pager. We have been told that we only need to answer them during working hours.
I am part of a team (also working my same hours) who keep the (3-4 million hits-a-day) web servers up (among software testing and stuff like that). We get to work with the ``latest & greatest'' Unix hardware.
We get three weeks of vacation the day we start working. Mandatory comp time (manager expects not to see us in if we put in extra time). (It is necessary to put in some after-hours time to put in new production machines.)
Did I mention that we also take care of the database, development, QA servers?
Last fire I remember having to put out was that I came into work at 830am and noticed a job failed. It hit the 2gig file size limit.
You can always check out Edgar-Online's IPO Express for upcoming offerings. Right now they have offering notices up through the end of August. Of course, all of these are tentative, but it gives you a great idea who is coming out soon. (Also, a company can withdraw or be added at anytime. Check it daily:-) )
You can't buy through here, it's only there to inform and educate....
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Yeah!!!!!
Chimay! Blackjack! Hookers!
Well... forget the Chimay and blackjack.
-m
Apparantly you're new to the 1990's...
it's the "Not Me" Decade. Where blame falls everywhere else except on me and responsibility comes from elsewhere. People are too busy these days to watch their children. This post is of no fault of my own. It's the fault of the keyboard, computer, monitor, wire, network provider and everything that gets involved in this post getting to you. Blame them. It's not me.
Sorry... your comment is too intelligent for people to understand. You'll never get 98% of the general populous to agree.
I do agree with 100% and probably more than what you said.
-m
Netcraft tells us:
www.army.mil is running WebSTAR/4.0 ID/70636 on MacOS
And it's not a G4.... the headlines on www.army.mil tell us that it is a G3...
Exactly..
If the program drops the zeroes for the date, how on Gods green earth would it tell the difference between
XX129 (January 29, 19XX) and XX129 (December 9, 19XX)
Or for that matter 129XX
The 9's problem would have been a problem far before today if it were really a problem...
Even the Julian Date (April 9th was it) should be written 99099, and not 9999... (according to my calendar 9/9/99 is 99252)
-m
can be attained with this link. I urge you to wander around the site too for more stuff on the Domain Survey.
It was a past time of mine back in 92 and 93 to download the *entire* host list from these people. It was 20 mb or so at that time!
Now there's *at least* 56 million hosts around. That would be like, huge.
Let the good times roll? Bah.
The Internet was a good idea, but commercialism ruined it.
Sales tax... feh..
My federal and state taxes in 6 months of working last year equaled more than most of my friends made in a full year of work (I won't even count Soc.Sec. tax).
Roads and streetlights? I use toll roads. I pay per use for those. Local roads are taken care with the property tax, which coincidentally goes up every year. Same with schools, etc.
How is it that some states don't need a sales tax? (New Hampshire, IIRC, doens't have one. Minnesota doesn't tax life-necessary items... correct me if I'm wrong...)
Then there's the vast majority of items I don't even purchase in my local area since the taxes are too high. I go to an entirely different county or city to avoid paying tax (gas is a big one), so even right now i'm not supporting my "local" economy...
Sales tax... feh..
My federal and state taxes in 6 months of working last year equaled more than most of my friends made in a full year of work (I won't even count Soc.Sec. tax).
Roads and streetlights? I use toll roads. I pay per use for those. Local roads are taken care with the property tax, which coincidentally goes up every year. Same with schools, etc.
How is it that some states don't need a sales tax? (New Hampshire, IIRC, doens't have one. Minnesota doesn't tax life-necessary items... correct me if I'm wrong...)
Then there's the vast majority of items I don't even purchase in my local area since the taxes are too high. I go to an entirely different county or city to avoid paying tax (gas is a big one).
Do we smoke crack?
... or the good officer will tell your local pd's and bust in on ya!
Shhhh -- don't answer that
-m
Interesting... I called up and complained that I got dinged with two different cards charging me the $29 (I paid while on business in Hawaii so of course it took longer to get there).
:-)
They both took the $29 off as a "courtesy", but only after I paid it -- so I got a $29 credit on both. Technically you're supposed to pay anything in dispute and you're responsible for any charges incurred while it is (or something like that). But I actually wrote letters and snail-mailed them certified return-receipt. I got the credit within 2 months... better than nothing.
The interest thing with the banks merging works the other way too... my 18% credit card company is merging with my 9.9% credit card company... so now I have two cards at 9.9%. I just called up and complained and threatened to cancel my card.
Credit cards these days are like ISPs... if you get jacked around just go get another card (keep the 24% around but don't use it if it doesn't have an annual fee for "established credit"). It works!
-m
The ?'s that you see there are actually special characters in the footnotes...
:-)
In this case, they are little daggers or crosses (I forget what they're called).
They tie into the information down the line titled "MORE APR INFORMATION"
Hope this helps!
-m
Here's the actual numbers:
......................................... 4,741,750 13.8%
Common stock owned:
Novell, Inc.
Corporate Headquarters
122 East 1700 South
Provo, Utah 84606
Microsoft Corporation................................. 4,217,606 12.3%
One Microsoft Way
Redmond, Washington 98052-6399
Douglas L. Michels(2)................................. 4,028,400 11.7%
c/o The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc.
400 Encinal Street Santa Cruz,
California 95061-1900
Lawrence Michels(3)................................... 3,149,992 9.2%
30376 Snowbird Lane
Evergreen, Colorado 80439
From www.edgar-online.com, proxy statement for SCOC, Jan 21 1999.
It will probably cost Intel more by disabling it since people will just either buy less, or switch to another company. By having it enabled, at least Intel is getting some money.
Actually, I'm buying a house in January, so I might be cashing some in then if necessary to cover funds/furniture/lower monthly payments/etc...
:->
But I know you never said to do any damage to any website or business site, but who knows how angry some of these people are. At the minimum, I can just see the SEC getting the same verbal wrath poor near-sighted columnists have received by saying "Linux Sux, Windoze Roolz", you know, things that would make the whole lot of us look bad...
I don't blame you at all... perhaps commend you at pushing this cause. I must say that e-trade did drop the ball on it, but I was looking at it as that I sold my stock I had in e-trade last week in preparation for this...since then the stock dropped so far through the floor it's not funny.
So, even if I didn't get any RHAT, I'd still be ahead... I wasn't planning retirement on getting something I wasn't even guaranteed, but it sounds like some people were. I play the Big Game and PowerBall Lottery games sometimes, but I don't quit my job before the numbers are drawn...
Between the "blessing in disguise" and "pure luck" I have some "found money" to stash away for a "rainy day."
But really...at least buy some stock tomorrow at around noon or 1pm Eastern...If I didn't get in on the IPO, it what I was planning on doing, just would have bought less. I mean, if you think it might be 100 come year end, you'll double your money in 4 months
The stock market.. she's a funny lady that's for sure. In the 12 years I've been following it (since the 500+ point crash in October '87) I've been lucky to have a broker worry about getting me in on IPOs. This is the first one I've done alone, and most likely the last.
All the best and cheers... may all your IPO returns be big ones.
-m
and that's all that matters in here in the good ol' US, right? Got it right around 1230pm (EDT). I didn't get a letter either.
Of course, e-trade isn't my primary trading account, nor did I shove cash into them just for this ventrue. ( I did get bonus frequent flier miles for signing up with them back in March or so though...)
To those whining about not being able to get in (especially you, WillAffleck - I *wish* I had $100 grand to sink in high-risk capital, take a valium), get a hold of yourself. I do admit I was lucky -- I went to the e-trade page today and noticed that I had an alert about the price increase. When I went back to the IPO page it said "Go Now" to place a conditional offer again. This was all in the span of like a minute, so I must have been the first person doing it.
If you must complain (and I'm not saying you shouldn't) be civil. We don't need bad press about hacking into the SEC website, the SEC getting flamed to cinders with email (F* U*, Eat my $H!+, and so forth). That will just make the whole lot of us look like we're 3.
-m
Does this mean that Y2K really is the year 2000? I've been telling everyone it's coming in 2048.
Man.. I've got some serious catching up to do now.
... in binary format! (Great code for answering "How was your day")
Sex - 100 - most significant
Beer- 010
Unix- 001 - least significant
Now, go forth in search for 111.
-m
I hate to have to do this, but I'm going to follow up to my own...
Woodstock 99... looting, rioting, and 4 alleged rapes, not to mention the other sexual assaults (groping and the like).
The main demographic was teenagers.
Way to look mature, people. And you wonder why....
-m
I've read through some of the comments here and I can't bring myself to think the main demographic here is beings under 18 (most likely 15).
These are the rules. I follow them, they inforce them, you whine when you don't get your own way. You probably blame the cop for giving you a traffic ticket or your teacher for giving you an "F" on that last paper on the Moon.
Whenever I wanted to see an "R" movie, my parents went with me -- National Lampoons movies and Coming to America. For a class we watched an "R" rated movie -- we needed to get a letter signed by our parents before we could watch it in the classroom. There was no getting away from this.
Of course, I learned to **RESPECT** (gasp) the rule rather than rebel against it. I didn't agree with it, but I followed it because I didn't see the need to rebel. I mean, who needed to see it on first release. I could see it sooner or later. Now you whine that you have to wait six months before cable has it. Too bloody bad. I didn't have the luxury of cable, so I had to wait before a superstation had cut the thunder out of it.
The absolute worst (ratings wise) movie I was allowed to see was the (X or NC-17 rated) movie "The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover." Watching this movie I came back repulsed and knew why it had such a rating. Would you like your child to see someone getting feces rubbed all over their body. Or perhaps the imagery of canniballism would do better? Both are in this movie. Today, it bothers me no more, but as a teenager, it confused the heck out of me.
I just can not understand why the big hulabaloo over such a petty topic. Maybe it's that I'm "old fashioned," but I am prepared to be an integral part of my child's life. There are rules and no matter what those are the rules. They may be man-made and considered unfair, but believe it or not they're there for a reason.
You may think you are mature enough to watch those images on the screen, but you're not the general population. The whole United States is a prude when it comes to the discussion of that dirty word (sex) and when it comes down to it, parents, the MPAA and everyone shudder about it. Maybe we need a mentality that of Europe and South America where it's open to the point short of showing it on television (sorry if I'm wrong about this point, please forgive and correct, not flame).
Kids need to face that they're kids. You cannot sign a legal document, you cannot vote, you cannot drink or smoke (*opens a can of worms*). What makes you so damn special that the rules should be broken for *you*. Heck with you, I'm better than you are. Rules should be broken for me! Who are you?
It's just a movie. You're just a kid. Deal with it. Grow. Move on. Stop whining. Life isn't fair. Maybe if you stop whining you'll stop looking immature and people will take you seriously.
-m
I want to be president of the world, but we all have our little disappointments.
For US$4000 for the phone and something like US$8 a minute it better sound like the person is in the next room!
But really, this is the absolute last thing Iridium needs... they're so far in the debt tank I feel sorry for them now. Again, another great idea far ahead of its time.
(You can see this story at the Chicago Sun-Times... today August 4th for more Iridium woes.)
Wouldn't it take a long time for a reply anyway? Isn't there a couple seconds communication delay between the earth and the moon?
I can think of millions of better things to do with eleven bucks... like buying a lot of beer, getting drunk and talking to the aliens directly.
-m
I didn't get one -- wanted something with a built-in keyboard.
:-)
After months of searching, there was a "Managers floor display special" on a Zaurus. Picked that up for a hair over $200. The IR beaming device was $40.
2Mb ram, Wordprocessor, Spreadsheet, stylus, clipboard, notebook (for stylus writing), 3 data books, 3 phone books, vt100 and ansi terminals, fax sender, search utility, games, PCMCIA slot, the whole thing... and the keyboard
I don't think it's that much larger than the Pilot either.
Right now I loaded a list of some 4500 available DVD's and going through the list as to which ones I want to buy and which ones I want to consider buying...
I use mine, but not in public situations:
Me: Let me give you my office number
Them: (3 minute rigamarole getting out Palm and going to application to write down number) Ok.. shoot.
-m
I want to be President of the Universe. She wants no crypto. I guess we all have our little disappointments.
And to think, I pay money to live in ths corrupted country.
And it's the media's fault of course.
And now it's gone too flipping far that it's impossible to spin it the other way.
Where will I be? I don't know. I've made no plans. Here where I live, it's usually snowing like a summabeeotch, so most likely I'll be holed up in my house anyway watching television and drinking until January 3rd. If I'm not here I'll be enjoying myself not worrying one iota about the computers, the people or the universe.
Let them all kill themselves. That will mean no traffic during rush hour on Monday when I go to work.
--m
Mr. Spaceley made me push the button 7 times today!
But really... I too am sorry for the writer, but I worked over 4000 in 11 months. I was travelling (meaning that I was away from home for months at a time) to a different city every 3 to 10 days. At least you all seem to be working these insane hours and get to go home at the end.
I got to fly home for Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years. I flew home on the day before and left the Monday after. I finally saw that it was doing nothing but taking its toll on me and I quit.
Now I'm making more money (I was hourly then and now), and work 8 hours a week. Not a fluke -- we are all well compensated in my area -- and work 40-hour weeks -- either from home or office.
We have work-provided cell phones and/or pager. We have been told that we only need to answer them during working hours.
I am part of a team (also working my same hours) who keep the (3-4 million hits-a-day) web servers up (among software testing and stuff like that). We get to work with the ``latest & greatest'' Unix hardware.
We get three weeks of vacation the day we start working. Mandatory comp time (manager expects not to see us in if we put in extra time). (It is necessary to put in some after-hours time to put in new production machines.)
Did I mention that we also take care of the database, development, QA servers?
Last fire I remember having to put out was that I came into work at 830am and noticed a job failed. It hit the 2gig file size limit.
-m
You can always check out Edgar-Online's IPO Express for upcoming offerings. Right now they have offering notices up through the end of August. Of course, all of these are tentative, but it gives you a great idea who is coming out soon. (Also, a company can withdraw or be added at anytime. Check it daily :-) )
You can't buy through here, it's only there to inform and educate....
--m