Perhaps the best example of "taking a dive" was the June 28, 1997 fight between Mike Tyson and Evander Holyfield at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas, in which Tyson bit off a piece of Holyfield's ear in the third round and was disqualified by referee Mills Lane. The Vegas sportsbooks offered 20-1 odds against Tyson losing in the third round, which of course was advantageous for anyone who knew the outcome in advance.
This may be why Tyson has not as yet been successful in regaining a license to fight in Nevada.
The idiom refers to boxing, where in crooked matches a boxer (often a "palooka," a no-name challenger hyped as being equal to or better than the champion) is bribed with the understanding that he will agree to be knocked out, i.e. dive for the canvas.
Re:Don't send with eFax
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I am very satisfied with eFax. eFax is a pretty good way to send faxes from the road, where all you might have is an internet connection. You do not have to pay $/page to a drugstore or hotel, have someone else's fax header on your transmission, or reveal your physical location to the recipient. eFax is an awesome way to receive faxes, you get your own fax number, your faxes come to your email inbox wherever you are as.TIF attachments. eFax is also useful for scanning documents into your PC in.TIF format (by faxing to yourself) if you are on the road, or if you happen to have a fax machine handy but not a scanner.
1. Your Friends 2. The Yellow Pages 3. The County Bar Association
Some people worry they can't afford a lawyer. You have a deal for 1000 units, so this is not your problem.
Some people have an irrational fear of actually picking up the phone and making an appointment with a lawyer. If this is your problem, stand on your head and take ten deep breaths. Consult with a doctor before beginning any exercise program.
First I bought a Seiko MessageWatch that received content via FM radio, and Seiko decided they couldn't make money off the business model and quit, leaving me (and countless others) with a worthless POS closed-standard watch. Then Microsoft announced they were starting an FM radio subcarrier data service for their new line of closed-standard FM data watches. I was soooo first in line.
Another time, my SO bought me a Gemstar EBook reader as a gift. I pretended to like it. Because nobody wanted to buy copy-protected EBooks, and the unit did not support the vast amount of free books out there (e.g. Gutenberg), Gemstar went out of business, leaving me and countless others with a worthless POS closed-standard EBook reader; ultimately, the 2 or 3 books I did buy expired with the lithium battery. Now, Sony wants to introduce a closed-standard ebook product that, presumably, will feature DRM content and will, also presumably, make it hard or impossible to read all those free etexts. Deja #&%#$ vu all over again.
In other news, once upon a time in the 1960s, the U.S. was involved in a foreign war.....
Um, the actual employment (FICA) tax rate is more like 15.3%. Your employer "pays half" which means YOU really pay it, you just don't see it on your pay check stub.
Nobody suggested this already?! Consult a good workers' compensation attorney.
The workers' comp system is there for people who have work-related injuries, including repetitive stress injuries. Nearly all injured workers are eligible, including undocumented immigrants, people who work "off the books," and, in many cases, even so-called "independent contractors."
Carpal tunnel and other RSIs can cause permanent disabililty (can affect your abililty to earn a livelihood) and they can get worse if not treated.
The workers' comp system is a no-fault system (you will win your case), it offers free lifetime medical treatment for your injury (benefits vary from state to state), it often offers substantial monetary payments to compensate for temporary and permanent disability, and it usually pays your attorney fees (your attorney is FREE to you).
If your employer neglected to buy workers' comp insurance, this is illegal, your attorney will file the claim with the state uninsured employers fund.
FYI, since the claimants nearly always win, their attorneys receive a fee that is far less than that received by most personal injury contingent fee attorneys.
Although sleazeball companies do exist, it is against the law to discriminate or retaliate against someone for filing a legitimate workers' compensation claim, and if you were injured on the job, whether all at once or over a period of months or years through repetitive stress injury, you are a legitimate claimant.
Your seat cushion may be used as a flotation device.
Nobody has ever survived an attempted jetliner ditching using a flotation device, or otherwise. If you did, hypothermia would likely get to you before the Coast Gurd.
Place the oxygen mask over your nose and mouth and breathe normally.
And while you are doing this, the pilot is in a power dive towards 10,000 feet where there is enough air pressure to breathe. But he didn't tell you this: you think the plane is crashing instead of performing an intentional dive, and you are going to die. But breathe normally.
I was in law school, and we had a guest lecturer on Environmental Law. At the end of the lecture, I asked, "Who made up the law that all the buildings in California have to have silly little signs at the entrance that say stuff like, Xerox machine toner/lightbulbs/Bic pens/styrofoam coffee cups are used in this building and they are known to cause cancer or reproductive harm."
He replied "I did!!" and his face turned three shades of red and he wagged his finger at me for 15 minutes while angrily attempting to explain why he thought Prop 65 was wise legislation.
My Handspring Treo 600 is a pretty good device for doing what you suggest, probably any palm-phone will do. Have you thought about doing a marketing tie-in with a cellular service provider? Get the latest [brand] palmphone [at our special price][on a trial for a day at XYZ ballpark] and use it to get 2 free hot dogs and sodas delivered to your seat.
Maybe your ballpark is already named after a cell phone company.....
SPECTRE has announced that Ernst Stavro Blofeld has successfully aligned the interstellar-gas lens with the stellar diamond and it is now focused at major population centers on Earth. World governments are attempting to come up with the ransom. More at 11.......
Telling girls my phone number ensures they will NEVER forget it.
It's probably the same number they give out.
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Last time I got a prescription for Obecalp, the guy at the drugstore said my insurance company denied payment 'cause it wasn't on the formulary for my plan, and I had to pay $100. So I asked for the generic equivalent instead. Always do this.
I wouldn't even attempt a vulnerability scan, let alone touch one of the client's keyboards, unless the client first signed a permission slip -- one that I paid a lawyer to draft.
I would break the ice with a new client by giving the CEO a printout of his or her organization's userids and passwords (with some of the characters in the passwords obscured with *s). This usually gets their attention.
The only way for us to proceed is to make a public proposal directly to you and your Board.
We're bored from counting money and playing golf all day.
We have a wonderful opportunity to create a company that combines distribution and content in a way that is far stronger and more valuable than either Disney or Comcast can be standing alone.
Remember AOL and Time Warner? We don't.
We believe that improvements in operating performance, business creation opportunities and other combination benefits will generate enormous value for the shareholders of both companies.
We can lay off a bunch of people.
The Comcast management team greatly appreciates and is highly respectful of the Disney heritage.
Some of us even went to Disneyland when we were kids.
We know that there are many talented executives at Disney who we envision would also play a key role in managing the combined company.
Activate your resumes on Monster.com while you can....
We have analyzed the issues associated with regulatory approval and are confident that all necessary approvals can be obtained in a timely fashion.
FCC chairman Michael Powell will approve any proposal if you put a big enough check in the envelope.
Given the landscape that has evolved in our industry over the past few years, the creation of integrated content and distribution companies is essential to increasing the level of competition.
We can't decrease the level of competition fast enough.
The FCC's existing program access and program carriage rules ensure that the combined company will continue to make all of its satellite-delivered national and regional cable networks available on a non-exclusive, non-discriminatory basis and that there will be no discrimination against unaffiliated programming services.
"Bugs and Porky" will not be seen in its regular time period due to technical difficulties. Hey kids, it's duck season AND it's rabbit season!!
They are wise to this. You have to make like you are saying something intelligible that the machine didn't understand 'cause it's buggy:
Sprint: Hi! I'm Claire! Me: Why does the porridge bird lay its eggs in the air? Sprint: I'm sorry, I don't understand that response. Me: Mxyz ptlk. Nov schmoz ka pop! Sprint: Let me transfer you to an operator.
Dean's campaign vanished from the face of the earth after he fired the Trippi dude and hired an Al Gore lobbyist-stooge. And Trippi had spent all the money on Iowa and New Hampshire. But before that.....
1) He didn't control his volunteers. You don't let kids with pierced tongues try and persuade Iowa farmers to spend all day at your caucus. You don't let your gay volunteers kiss you with camerapeople present - however you might feel about it, gay rights is a loser issue except in a very few Zip codes. Did Karl Rove pay the guy to smooch him?
2) He didn't understand television. TV is a cool medium. When you are on TV you are a guest in people's living rooms. Dean vomited on the rug.
3) He didn't do damage control. After the New Hampshire speech, he should have gone on TV to apologize and show how levelheaded and non-angry he could be. Instead, nobody ever saw him on TV after that.
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Perhaps the best example of "taking a dive" was the June 28, 1997 fight between Mike Tyson and Evander Holyfield at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas, in which Tyson bit off a piece of Holyfield's ear in the third round and was disqualified by referee Mills Lane. The Vegas sportsbooks offered 20-1 odds against Tyson losing in the third round, which of course was advantageous for anyone who knew the outcome in advance.
This may be why Tyson has not as yet been successful in regaining a license to fight in Nevada.
The idiom refers to boxing, where in crooked matches a boxer (often a "palooka," a no-name challenger hyped as being equal to or better than the champion) is bribed with the understanding that he will agree to be knocked out, i.e. dive for the canvas.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Your_mileage_may_vary
I am very satisfied with eFax. eFax is a pretty good way to send faxes from the road, where all you might have is an internet connection. You do not have to pay $/page to a drugstore or hotel, have someone else's fax header on your transmission, or reveal your physical location to the recipient. eFax is an awesome way to receive faxes, you get your own fax number, your faxes come to your email inbox wherever you are as .TIF attachments. eFax is also useful for scanning documents into your PC in .TIF format (by faxing to yourself) if you are on the road, or if you happen to have a fax machine handy but not a scanner.
1. Your Friends
2. The Yellow Pages
3. The County Bar Association
Some people worry they can't afford a lawyer. You have a deal for 1000 units, so this is not your problem.
Some people have an irrational fear of actually picking up the phone and making an appointment with a lawyer. If this is your problem, stand on your head and take ten deep breaths. Consult with a doctor before beginning any exercise program.
First I bought a Seiko MessageWatch that received content via FM radio, and Seiko decided they couldn't make money off the business model and quit, leaving me (and countless others) with a worthless POS closed-standard watch. Then Microsoft announced they were starting an FM radio subcarrier data service for their new line of closed-standard FM data watches. I was soooo first in line.
Another time, my SO bought me a Gemstar EBook reader as a gift. I pretended to like it. Because nobody wanted to buy copy-protected EBooks, and the unit did not support the vast amount of free books out there (e.g. Gutenberg), Gemstar went out of business, leaving me and countless others with a worthless POS closed-standard EBook reader; ultimately, the 2 or 3 books I did buy expired with the lithium battery. Now, Sony wants to introduce a closed-standard ebook product that, presumably, will feature DRM content and will, also presumably, make it hard or impossible to read all those free etexts. Deja #&%#$ vu all over again.
In other news, once upon a time in the 1960s, the U.S. was involved in a foreign war.....
Um, the actual employment (FICA) tax rate is more like 15.3%. Your employer "pays half" which means YOU really pay it, you just don't see it on your pay check stub.
Nobody suggested this already?! Consult a good workers' compensation attorney.
The workers' comp system is there for people who have work-related injuries, including repetitive stress injuries. Nearly all injured workers are eligible, including undocumented immigrants, people who work "off the books," and, in many cases, even so-called "independent contractors."
Carpal tunnel and other RSIs can cause permanent disabililty (can affect your abililty to earn a livelihood) and they can get worse if not treated.
The workers' comp system is a no-fault system (you will win your case), it offers free lifetime medical treatment for your injury (benefits vary from state to state), it often offers substantial monetary payments to compensate for temporary and permanent disability, and it usually pays your attorney fees (your attorney is FREE to you).
If your employer neglected to buy workers' comp insurance, this is illegal, your attorney will file the claim with the state uninsured employers fund.
FYI, since the claimants nearly always win, their attorneys receive a fee that is far less than that received by most personal injury contingent fee attorneys.
Although sleazeball companies do exist, it is against the law to discriminate or retaliate against someone for filing a legitimate workers' compensation claim, and if you were injured on the job, whether all at once or over a period of months or years through repetitive stress injury, you are a legitimate claimant.
Go for it. IAAL.
Before you wish for cell phones on planes, take a train sometime.
hi! guess what! my cell phone works on the train! but it never seems to work quite right unless i yell into it!!
Your seat cushion may be used as a flotation device.
Nobody has ever survived an attempted jetliner ditching using a flotation device, or otherwise. If you did, hypothermia would likely get to you before the Coast Gurd.
Place the oxygen mask over your nose and mouth and breathe normally.
And while you are doing this, the pilot is in a power dive towards 10,000 feet where there is enough air pressure to breathe. But he didn't tell you this: you think the plane is crashing instead of performing an intentional dive, and you are going to die. But breathe normally.
I was in law school, and we had a guest lecturer on Environmental Law. At the end of the lecture, I asked, "Who made up the law that all the buildings in California have to have silly little signs at the entrance that say stuff like, Xerox machine toner/lightbulbs/Bic pens/styrofoam coffee cups are used in this building and they are known to cause cancer or reproductive harm."
He replied "I did!!" and his face turned three shades of red and he wagged his finger at me for 15 minutes while angrily attempting to explain why he thought Prop 65 was wise legislation.
Moral: You never know who you're talking to.
Maybe your ballpark is already named after a cell phone company.....
For this race, they have a mechanical ovum that goes around the track on a little rail. Howard Stern will do the play-by-play on the radio.
I clicked on this thinking there was a new court decision since the last Slashdot article about the Ninth Circuit decision issued February 10 in this case. But it's just a dupe.
SPECTRE has announced that Ernst Stavro Blofeld has successfully aligned the interstellar-gas lens with the stellar diamond and it is now focused at major population centers on Earth. World governments are attempting to come up with the ransom. More at 11.......
Telling girls my phone number ensures they will NEVER forget it.
It's probably the same number they give out.
Last time I got a prescription for Obecalp, the guy at the drugstore said my insurance company denied payment 'cause it wasn't on the formulary for my plan, and I had to pay $100. So I asked for the generic equivalent instead. Always do this.
I wouldn't even attempt a vulnerability scan, let alone touch one of the client's keyboards, unless the client first signed a permission slip -- one that I paid a lawyer to draft.
I would break the ice with a new client by giving the CEO a printout of his or her organization's userids and passwords (with some of the characters in the passwords obscured with *s). This usually gets their attention.
We won't be bought
We are not willing
We don't need
Your $66 million
Fire Mike Eisner and his flacks
Hire Jobs, buy Macs.
You would be cross and cruel
You'd mess with Mickey Mouse, you fools
You can shove your tender offer
You'd be the next AOL TimeWarner
(I put that in, too.)
Disney Corp. ain't on the block, see
We will never give you our signed proxy
Go 'way Billy
Many thanks, Sincerely,
Roy and Stan Disney
The only way for us to proceed is to make a public proposal directly to you and your Board.
We're bored from counting money and playing golf all day.
We have a wonderful opportunity to create a company that combines distribution and content in a way that is far stronger and more valuable than either Disney or Comcast can be standing alone.
Remember AOL and Time Warner? We don't.
We believe that improvements in operating performance, business creation opportunities and other combination benefits will generate enormous value for the shareholders of both companies.
We can lay off a bunch of people.
The Comcast management team greatly appreciates and is highly respectful of the Disney heritage.
Some of us even went to Disneyland when we were kids.
We know that there are many talented executives at Disney who we envision would also play a key role in managing the combined company.
Activate your resumes on Monster.com while you can....
We have analyzed the issues associated with regulatory approval and are confident that all necessary approvals can be obtained in a timely fashion.
FCC chairman Michael Powell will approve any proposal if you put a big enough check in the envelope.
Given the landscape that has evolved in our industry over the past few years, the creation of integrated content and distribution companies is essential to increasing the level of competition.
We can't decrease the level of competition fast enough.
The FCC's existing program access and program carriage rules ensure that the combined company will continue to make all of its satellite-delivered national and regional cable networks available on a non-exclusive, non-discriminatory basis and that there will be no discrimination against unaffiliated programming services.
"Bugs and Porky" will not be seen in its regular time period due to technical difficulties. Hey kids, it's duck season AND it's rabbit season!!
that this article appears next to an article about Harlan Ellison, who originally reminded us, you don't fuck with the Mouse.
It's just a water-cooled tinfoil hat.
They are wise to this. You have to make like you are saying something intelligible that the machine didn't understand 'cause it's buggy:
Sprint: Hi! I'm Claire!
Me: Why does the porridge bird lay its eggs in the air?
Sprint: I'm sorry, I don't understand that response.
Me: Mxyz ptlk. Nov schmoz ka pop!
Sprint: Let me transfer you to an operator.
Dean's campaign vanished from the face of the earth after he fired the Trippi dude and hired an Al Gore lobbyist-stooge. And Trippi had spent all the money on Iowa and New Hampshire. But before that.....
1) He didn't control his volunteers. You don't let kids with pierced tongues try and persuade Iowa farmers to spend all day at your caucus. You don't let your gay volunteers kiss you with camerapeople present - however you might feel about it, gay rights is a loser issue except in a very few Zip codes. Did Karl Rove pay the guy to smooch him?
2) He didn't understand television. TV is a cool medium. When you are on TV you are a guest in people's living rooms. Dean vomited on the rug.
3) He didn't do damage control. After the New Hampshire speech, he should have gone on TV to apologize and show how levelheaded and non-angry he could be. Instead, nobody ever saw him on TV after that.