Or you live in the 30% or so of the country that still only has dialup, unless you're made of money and can afford satellite. In which case you probably don't need that job anyway.;)
And it's not just the boonies. There are suburbs of Los Angeles that still can't get broadband -- unless you want to pay $100+/month for 3G. Is that really good money management??
Yep. There are a lot of ways to handle it now, most of them cheap to practically free. And seems to me if someone doesn't have internet access at home (or is homeless or between jobs or whatever), spending $5 or so a year to get a permanent and professional-sounding mailbox becomes even more worthwhile.
Who are you getting a $4 domain from? That's about the lowest price I've heard. Which DNS service do you use? Dynip.com has been reliable for a long time, but there are others now too.
(I just moved all my domains to 1&1, which averages around $7. The big advantage there is the control panel that gives me instant access for everything about my domains and mailboxes. Oh, and tech support with real clues.)
When AOL webmail became free for all to use, I gave it a look -- IMO it's better thought out than GMail, being more geared toward just getting the job done and less toward peripheral uses (like storing junk there). That said, I do agree @aol.com tends to look unprofessional, at least if you're presenting yourself as an expert and not as an everyday grunt.
(I don't use webmail except as a last resort, but I do have accounts at both AOL and GMail, both of which think I've died:)
The one that bothers me as a professional contact is yahoo.com, mainly because they have a habit of intermittently disappearing all the email in or out of their servers for months at a time, and you don't know it's happened because it just vanishes without even an error message. This problem has been around for 11 years now and still ain't fixed.
There are several outfits that sell domains for $10/year or less, email included. 1&1 would cost you $7/year right now. The professional aspect aside, it's worth that to have a permanent email address that no one's corporate misadventures can make go away or render unreliable (I'm lookin' at you, Yahoo!).
Cripes, $40 at 1&1 gets me 2 domains and 150GB of hosting for 6 months (unlimited traffic, 1200 mailboxes), and that's not even their cheapest plan. (http://www.1and1.com/?k_id=6761404 for those interested)
Seems to me if you're not aware of these sorts of deals, which have been around for 5-6 years now, you should turn in your geek card anyway:)
I do own a business, but it's not the sort of place anyone handicapped would come, and I don't have a storefront... however, you gotta wonder how many small businesses have been put OUT of business by ADA lawsuits, and how many have declined to even start because being fully accessable is cost-prohibitive.
Remember when NYC put portable outhouses on the street corners so the homeless wouldn't have to pee in the alleys? every 5th unit was wheelchair accessable. Some yahoo wheelchair-user filed a lawsuit to force the city to make them ALL wheelchair accessable... and the courts agreed. Now, a regular portapotty costs about $1000, but the ADA-compliant units cost $100,000. The city did the math, deemed clean alleys not worth multiple millions of dollars, and removed ALL the units.
Yep... sometimes the handicapped are their own worst enemies.
Ah, you should probably put somewhere we'll see it that you can also search by year or decade, that would cover it adequately I think.
I decided after some wandering around that I like the various tagging links found below each image. Tho I think you need a "key" on the About or FAQ page or wherever you keep such stuff -- at first I was baffled as to what "via" meant! Oh, it means source. D'oh!
I do like the plain and simple interface. No distractions, no damned flash to argue with, just images to gawk at.
BTW thanks to your site I found an ad for a first cousin of my 1950-vintage electric range:)
And creating a new class of the imaginary-helpless who also "need" lawyers to file lawsuits on their behalf... do you mean the ADA further marginalizes the handicapped because now it's not about helping them, but rather about lawsuit avoidance, which can also be avoidance of handicapped persons....??
Glad you made it. The really old stuff from the 1800s and before is fascinating. The one thing I wish you'd add is an ability to browse by date, without regard to subject, for those of us more interested in the when than the what.:)
First one I followed back to the source was from the Duke University collection, so the accusation of being a glorified sidewalk sale is out of line. Seems to be any source, anywhere. So I think this will be a good resource both for research and for collectors.
And it sure is interesting (and a bit disconcerting; what does it say about the audience?!) to watch the shift from ads being informative (at least, the information you needed to be convinced to buy) to glorified powerpoint slides like so many are in the present!
Did Matsushita make all RCA's old stuff? It did seem to be fairly durable, back-when.
I'm fairly biased toward their Panasonic brand myself -- mainly because it's durable. All my older still-working electronics are Panasonic; I've had some last over 30 years.
That'll teach you to believe everything Captain Planet advertises... didn't you realise he's just hard up for recruits? There's only one woman in a tight pink jumpsuit, and she works for the headhunter agency that hired you!
Thanks for the info. My suspicious little mind begins to wonder if the ADA was deliberately written to be lawsuit-friendly; in any event it clearly needs rewriting. And maybe the concept of "statutory damages" needs to go away entirely -- it seems to garner far more than its fair share of abuse. (e.g. RIAA suits)
Kudos to your brother for opposing this slimeball!!
Welcome.... I grew up in Montana ranch country so clues came with the territory:) What with most people being totally disconnected from farm reality (now that we have a 3rd generation raised away from the farm and not even grandma has memories to pass along) it's become too easy for the ARs to generate "animal theatre" (the AR equivalent of security theatre) -- and be believed by the great unwashed.
I don't know how long epi keeps unrefrigerated -- I only know it's supposed to be stored cold. But a lot of drugs don't actually go bad if they get warm, they just don't keep as long. Vaccines will actually keep about a month at room temp, or a week at high temps. (Or about 18 months if kept cold.) A lot of the storage labeling is for legal liability reasons, same as the stale dates on stuff that keeps indefinitely (like atropine).
http://www.onlinepillspro.com/ is an online pharmacy in India that carries a lot of stuff that's hard to get in the U.S. (it's one of the few that carries chloramphenicol at a fair price -- an old antibiotic that has no true replacement and is now tough to get) but I don't see epi there. I don't know how reliable these foreign pharmacies are but from what I've seen they all have a policy of replacement shipping if customs grabs the package, which apparently happens sometimes. There are a bunch of these outfits, maybe one carries it. It's a way around the RX thing, anyway.
Meanwhile, check whether Costco or Sam's Club has those epipen gadgets; if so their price will be a LOT lower than anywhere else, typically about 1/3rd the chain pharmacy price. Also check whether it's one of Walmart's $4 generics. (Tho it looks to me like the real problem is that the delivery mechanism is still under patent, and they're making hay while the sun shines. Tho if you ask me, $90 for a glorified spring-loaded syringe is highway robbery. The price is not much better in Canada, far as I found, even tho it's non-RX there. Best price, per http://www.canadahealthsolutions.com/RXMednet/ext_drugs.asp?a=FL52441&letter=E is about $70.)
Here's a list that might be useful, http://www2.doh.gov.ph/pls/drugs_price.htm apparently a Phil Pharmawealth Inc. in Manila, Philipines, has 1 ml ampoules for $15, which at least is progress price-wise. (This is probably direct from one of the major licensed manufacturers, maybe the only actual mfgr. It's very unlikely that it's made in USA anymore.)
About 20 years ago a well-known company proudly announced that their new contact lens solution was "never tested on animals". Turned out that their new formula did irreverseable corneal damage, and blinded a number of its users. (I found out about it because a friend was part of the resulting class-action lawsuit.)
BTW when chemicals are tested in sensitive organs like rabbits' eyes, regulations require that the animal first be anaesthetized so that it will NOT feel any pain, in the event that damage does occur.
Used to be anyone could buy a bottle of epinephrine off the shelf but somewhere recently it's become a prescription item. However, the vendors don't care if a doctor or a vet writes the prescription; legally it's all the same. I use valleyvet.com for livestock supplies (vaccine, antibiotics, etc.), very reliable. I expect that if you can get an RX you can also get it filled at about the same price at Costco or Walmart, and skip the shipping charge. (It needs to be kept cold, so vaccine shipping rates apply.) And of course there are the overseas pharmacies... most drugs come from mfgrs in India anyway, nowadays.
Be aware that when it passes its stale-date, it does stop working. That's actually why I stopped bothering to keep epi on hand -- cuz it would get old and mostly go to waste. Atropine is almost as good for my purposes, even cheaper, and keeps forever. (The bottle in my fridge is dated 1991 and it still works. But I mainly use it as a topical treatment for bee stings, seeing no reason to suffer swelling and itch for a week if I don't have to. I used to work for a beekeeper.:)
I am a fairly irregular person myself:D I agree with your friend, it's better to just deal with stuff, rather than hide in a bubble.
As you've been told, the object is to have calm, unstressed animals, because stressed meat can taste rank. But commercial livestock are used to being handled via chutes -- and they don't know that the chute at the slaughterhouse that ends with the captive-bolt pistol is any different from the chute that sorts 'em at the feed bunk and ends with a nice tasty grain mash. Steer A has no idea that Steer B just got it between the eyeballs. (And trust me, several thousand freaked-out steers wouldn't wind up slaughtered; they'd tear the building apart.)
Anyway, stressed meat is pretty durn rare -- it's not like a gutshot deer that you had to trail half a mile before it died and is gamey because of that. In fact I've never tasted commercial meat that had any gameyness whatever. -- Beyond that, flavour is largely dependent on finishing (grain makes for a richer taste than grass, but grass is cheaper) and aging the carcass.
The problem with grocery-store meat over the past couple decades isn't anything to do with the slaughterhouse. Rather, it's the distribution process -- it's become more centralized, leading to longer times in the pipeline. My friend who worked 30 years as a meatcutter for a major grocery chain told me they usually threw out a third of every carton because it had been pre-butchered (boned and cut up), then was in transit too long and had gone slimey. If your farm-fresh carcass was passed down the same chain, it would be just as bad. -- Conversely, Sam's Club still does their own butchering (no pre-boned cuts spending 3 days in a warehoused carton enroute) so their meat is fresh.
One of the hallmarks of the animal rights types is to claim to have worked in thus-and-such a capacity, but then to make claims that are utterly counter to the normal activities of that job. In some cases it's sheer malicious fabrication, but in others it's that a city mindset can't wrap itself around the reality of manure.
As you say -- it's the same in both farm and laboratory settings: everything possible is done to reduce or better yet eliminate stress on the animals, because stress 1) reduces productivity thus damages farm profits, and 2) invalidates laboratory test results thus increases costs. Plain old economics. The ARs count on the public's ignorance of those little facts when they claim that farms and laboratories "torture animals for fun and profit".
There's been some research recently that focused on children's exposure to garden-variety dirt and pets vs allergy incidence. Those with more exposure to this sort of "dirt" (what we evolved around in the first place) were significantly less likely to develop random allergies, because their immune systems had been stimulated at a reasonable level and had "learned" to handle it. However, kids that lacked such exposure were much more likely to develop allergies -- lacking prior "experience" as it were, their immune systems tend to overreact (which is what an allergy IS) when they encounter "unknown" substances.
I'm too lazy to look up a cite but I'm sure you can find plenty about this.
Occurs to me to wonder... what about stuff that's made from peanut hulls? and since that would be found mostly as undifferentiated fibre, how would you know til it was too late??
[goes off, reads cited article] Appears this guy has discovered it's a lot easier to extort money from various businesses than it is to drum up clients and do real work.
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Exactly my point. :)
Note the slight change I also made to the username :D
[thinking] Given the current user, this might actually be progress :/
They were, but later on they started allowing names. Tho I don't think I ever saw one of those.
Or you live in the 30% or so of the country that still only has dialup, unless you're made of money and can afford satellite. In which case you probably don't need that job anyway. ;)
And it's not just the boonies. There are suburbs of Los Angeles that still can't get broadband -- unless you want to pay $100+/month for 3G. Is that really good money management??
Yep. There are a lot of ways to handle it now, most of them cheap to practically free. And seems to me if someone doesn't have internet access at home (or is homeless or between jobs or whatever), spending $5 or so a year to get a permanent and professional-sounding mailbox becomes even more worthwhile.
Who are you getting a $4 domain from? That's about the lowest price I've heard. Which DNS service do you use? Dynip.com has been reliable for a long time, but there are others now too.
(I just moved all my domains to 1&1, which averages around $7. The big advantage there is the control panel that gives me instant access for everything about my domains and mailboxes. Oh, and tech support with real clues.)
I had the exact same thought when Yahoo-the-company first appeared, for the exact same reason :D
(In fact, I sometimes use the phrase "ignorant yahoos")
When AOL webmail became free for all to use, I gave it a look -- IMO it's better thought out than GMail, being more geared toward just getting the job done and less toward peripheral uses (like storing junk there). That said, I do agree @aol.com tends to look unprofessional, at least if you're presenting yourself as an expert and not as an everyday grunt.
(I don't use webmail except as a last resort, but I do have accounts at both AOL and GMail, both of which think I've died :)
The one that bothers me as a professional contact is yahoo.com, mainly because they have a habit of intermittently disappearing all the email in or out of their servers for months at a time, and you don't know it's happened because it just vanishes without even an error message. This problem has been around for 11 years now and still ain't fixed.
For a COBOL programmer, you'll need to find someone whose addy is something like
!server.routing.location@group.user
There are several outfits that sell domains for $10/year or less, email included. 1&1 would cost you $7/year right now. The professional aspect aside, it's worth that to have a permanent email address that no one's corporate misadventures can make go away or render unreliable (I'm lookin' at you, Yahoo!).
Cripes, $40 at 1&1 gets me 2 domains and 150GB of hosting for 6 months (unlimited traffic, 1200 mailboxes), and that's not even their cheapest plan. (http://www.1and1.com/?k_id=6761404 for those interested)
Seems to me if you're not aware of these sorts of deals, which have been around for 5-6 years now, you should turn in your geek card anyway :)
I'd prefer resident@whitehouse.com
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(The original site is gone. But old-timers will remember what it was.)
I do own a business, but it's not the sort of place anyone handicapped would come, and I don't have a storefront ... however, you gotta wonder how many small businesses have been put OUT of business by ADA lawsuits, and how many have declined to even start because being fully accessable is cost-prohibitive.
Remember when NYC put portable outhouses on the street corners so the homeless wouldn't have to pee in the alleys? every 5th unit was wheelchair accessable. Some yahoo wheelchair-user filed a lawsuit to force the city to make them ALL wheelchair accessable... and the courts agreed. Now, a regular portapotty costs about $1000, but the ADA-compliant units cost $100,000. The city did the math, deemed clean alleys not worth multiple millions of dollars, and removed ALL the units.
Yep... sometimes the handicapped are their own worst enemies.
Ah, you should probably put somewhere we'll see it that you can also search by year or decade, that would cover it adequately I think.
I decided after some wandering around that I like the various tagging links found below each image. Tho I think you need a "key" on the About or FAQ page or wherever you keep such stuff -- at first I was baffled as to what "via" meant! Oh, it means source. D'oh!
I do like the plain and simple interface. No distractions, no damned flash to argue with, just images to gawk at.
BTW thanks to your site I found an ad for a first cousin of my 1950-vintage electric range :)
And creating a new class of the imaginary-helpless who also "need" lawyers to file lawsuits on their behalf... do you mean the ADA further marginalizes the handicapped because now it's not about helping them, but rather about lawsuit avoidance, which can also be avoidance of handicapped persons....??
Glad you made it. The really old stuff from the 1800s and before is fascinating. The one thing I wish you'd add is an ability to browse by date, without regard to subject, for those of us more interested in the when than the what. :)
First one I followed back to the source was from the Duke University collection, so the accusation of being a glorified sidewalk sale is out of line. Seems to be any source, anywhere. So I think this will be a good resource both for research and for collectors.
And it sure is interesting (and a bit disconcerting; what does it say about the audience?!) to watch the shift from ads being informative (at least, the information you needed to be convinced to buy) to glorified powerpoint slides like so many are in the present!
Did Matsushita make all RCA's old stuff? It did seem to be fairly durable, back-when.
I'm fairly biased toward their Panasonic brand myself -- mainly because it's durable. All my older still-working electronics are Panasonic; I've had some last over 30 years.
That'll teach you to believe everything Captain Planet advertises... didn't you realise he's just hard up for recruits? There's only one woman in a tight pink jumpsuit, and she works for the headhunter agency that hired you!
Thanks for the info. My suspicious little mind begins to wonder if the ADA was deliberately written to be lawsuit-friendly; in any event it clearly needs rewriting. And maybe the concept of "statutory damages" needs to go away entirely -- it seems to garner far more than its fair share of abuse. (e.g. RIAA suits)
Kudos to your brother for opposing this slimeball!!
Welcome.... I grew up in Montana ranch country so clues came with the territory :) What with most people being totally disconnected from farm reality (now that we have a 3rd generation raised away from the farm and not even grandma has memories to pass along) it's become too easy for the ARs to generate "animal theatre" (the AR equivalent of security theatre) -- and be believed by the great unwashed.
Much to the glee of foreign meat producers....
I don't know how long epi keeps unrefrigerated -- I only know it's supposed to be stored cold. But a lot of drugs don't actually go bad if they get warm, they just don't keep as long. Vaccines will actually keep about a month at room temp, or a week at high temps. (Or about 18 months if kept cold.) A lot of the storage labeling is for legal liability reasons, same as the stale dates on stuff that keeps indefinitely (like atropine).
http://www.onlinepillspro.com/ is an online pharmacy in India that carries a lot of stuff that's hard to get in the U.S. (it's one of the few that carries chloramphenicol at a fair price -- an old antibiotic that has no true replacement and is now tough to get) but I don't see epi there. I don't know how reliable these foreign pharmacies are but from what I've seen they all have a policy of replacement shipping if customs grabs the package, which apparently happens sometimes. There are a bunch of these outfits, maybe one carries it. It's a way around the RX thing, anyway.
Meanwhile, check whether Costco or Sam's Club has those epipen gadgets; if so their price will be a LOT lower than anywhere else, typically about 1/3rd the chain pharmacy price. Also check whether it's one of Walmart's $4 generics. (Tho it looks to me like the real problem is that the delivery mechanism is still under patent, and they're making hay while the sun shines. Tho if you ask me, $90 for a glorified spring-loaded syringe is highway robbery. The price is not much better in Canada, far as I found, even tho it's non-RX there. Best price, per http://www.canadahealthsolutions.com/RXMednet/ext_drugs.asp?a=FL52441&letter=E is about $70.)
Here's a list that might be useful, http://www2.doh.gov.ph/pls/drugs_price.htm
apparently a Phil Pharmawealth Inc. in Manila, Philipines, has 1 ml ampoules for $15, which at least is progress price-wise. (This is probably direct from one of the major licensed manufacturers, maybe the only actual mfgr. It's very unlikely that it's made in USA anymore.)
About 20 years ago a well-known company proudly announced that their new contact lens solution was "never tested on animals". Turned out that their new formula did irreverseable corneal damage, and blinded a number of its users. (I found out about it because a friend was part of the resulting class-action lawsuit.)
BTW when chemicals are tested in sensitive organs like rabbits' eyes, regulations require that the animal first be anaesthetized so that it will NOT feel any pain, in the event that damage does occur.
Used to be anyone could buy a bottle of epinephrine off the shelf but somewhere recently it's become a prescription item. However, the vendors don't care if a doctor or a vet writes the prescription; legally it's all the same. I use valleyvet.com for livestock supplies (vaccine, antibiotics, etc.), very reliable. I expect that if you can get an RX you can also get it filled at about the same price at Costco or Walmart, and skip the shipping charge. (It needs to be kept cold, so vaccine shipping rates apply.) And of course there are the overseas pharmacies... most drugs come from mfgrs in India anyway, nowadays.
Be aware that when it passes its stale-date, it does stop working. That's actually why I stopped bothering to keep epi on hand -- cuz it would get old and mostly go to waste. Atropine is almost as good for my purposes, even cheaper, and keeps forever. (The bottle in my fridge is dated 1991 and it still works. But I mainly use it as a topical treatment for bee stings, seeing no reason to suffer swelling and itch for a week if I don't have to. I used to work for a beekeeper. :)
I am a fairly irregular person myself :D I agree with your friend, it's better to just deal with stuff, rather than hide in a bubble.
As you've been told, the object is to have calm, unstressed animals, because stressed meat can taste rank. But commercial livestock are used to being handled via chutes -- and they don't know that the chute at the slaughterhouse that ends with the captive-bolt pistol is any different from the chute that sorts 'em at the feed bunk and ends with a nice tasty grain mash. Steer A has no idea that Steer B just got it between the eyeballs. (And trust me, several thousand freaked-out steers wouldn't wind up slaughtered; they'd tear the building apart.)
Anyway, stressed meat is pretty durn rare -- it's not like a gutshot deer that you had to trail half a mile before it died and is gamey because of that. In fact I've never tasted commercial meat that had any gameyness whatever. -- Beyond that, flavour is largely dependent on finishing (grain makes for a richer taste than grass, but grass is cheaper) and aging the carcass.
The problem with grocery-store meat over the past couple decades isn't anything to do with the slaughterhouse. Rather, it's the distribution process -- it's become more centralized, leading to longer times in the pipeline. My friend who worked 30 years as a meatcutter for a major grocery chain told me they usually threw out a third of every carton because it had been pre-butchered (boned and cut up), then was in transit too long and had gone slimey. If your farm-fresh carcass was passed down the same chain, it would be just as bad. -- Conversely, Sam's Club still does their own butchering (no pre-boned cuts spending 3 days in a warehoused carton enroute) so their meat is fresh.
One of the hallmarks of the animal rights types is to claim to have worked in thus-and-such a capacity, but then to make claims that are utterly counter to the normal activities of that job. In some cases it's sheer malicious fabrication, but in others it's that a city mindset can't wrap itself around the reality of manure.
As you say -- it's the same in both farm and laboratory settings: everything possible is done to reduce or better yet eliminate stress on the animals, because stress 1) reduces productivity thus damages farm profits, and 2) invalidates laboratory test results thus increases costs. Plain old economics. The ARs count on the public's ignorance of those little facts when they claim that farms and laboratories "torture animals for fun and profit".
There's been some research recently that focused on children's exposure to garden-variety dirt and pets vs allergy incidence. Those with more exposure to this sort of "dirt" (what we evolved around in the first place) were significantly less likely to develop random allergies, because their immune systems had been stimulated at a reasonable level and had "learned" to handle it. However, kids that lacked such exposure were much more likely to develop allergies -- lacking prior "experience" as it were, their immune systems tend to overreact (which is what an allergy IS) when they encounter "unknown" substances.
I'm too lazy to look up a cite but I'm sure you can find plenty about this.
Occurs to me to wonder... what about stuff that's made from peanut hulls? and since that would be found mostly as undifferentiated fibre, how would you know til it was too late??
[goes off, reads cited article] Appears this guy has discovered it's a lot easier to extort money from various businesses than it is to drum up clients and do real work.