and our state's record of proceedings. I highly recommend the exercise. People who have never had the experience have no idea what horrors don't make it out of committee to catch the eye of the news.
"Fuck you! i do not owe you any money so you sort it out, it is not my problem"
Been there. Done that. Basically, just means the collector will pour another one for me that night.
Student Loan web site has a convenient page where the debtor can change their address themselves. Some chick just keeps putting in my wife's address and phone number. We're past due for another call so I can't say whether the dumb bastards at the student loan collection agency have put in a way to flag people who do that or not.
Her first attempt was a Sams Club. The obviously Chinese collections agency actually gave me the SSN they had on record. I may have written it down but I lost it. Geez, imagine the fun I could have had if I would have realized she would be such a pain in the ass later.
Clinging to the least necessary Windows as an annoying middleware to Adobe web tools running in a qemu VM after 8 years with a linux desktop. When I say least, I mean XP stripped down to barest classic view, barest servers and optimized for acceptable performance. If Adobe came out with linux versions of everything, a whole class of tech people wouldn't need Windows.
Should I start with "Sonny, back in _my_ day...?" Makes me feel good. Geez, in the 80s we ran a summer school for a couple hundred staff and a couple thousand kids on frackin' green screen, dual-floppy 4.77 mhz IBM PCs. And except for MS-DOS the software was mostly WordPerfect and dBase. I guess the fact that some bureaucrat in Mali can't play Bioshock on the office computer on his lunch break is surprisingly low on my list of liberal heart bleeds.
For years, the shit-for-brains national student loan collection agency has called periodically to try to collect "her" loan. She hasn't taken a college course in 30+ years, they always "remove" her -- and they always call back in another year or so. _Identity_ theft, not identity _theft_. We've also dealt with her ghost's bad Sam's Club account. My wife sounds exactly like the sort of person who will get hit by this if they don't fix it.
I think the private aquarium in the basement of Mall of America deserves some credit. To compare it to the old National Aquarium in the basement of Labor on the D.C. Mall I think would be an insult to Underwater World, but it obviously doesn't have space like the Shedd. Lot of sharks, many species and many displays but it doesn't do something like a dolphin show. The main attraction is one of those acrylic walk-through designs for better or worse. Mostly better because it's a lot of fun and reasonably long.
Science Museum of Minnesota. Dunno. They all look alike to me. Floors of demos and interactive projects for kids, dinosaur bones, theaters and a marine emphasis with the tugboat and Mississippi River education. Plan for good weather and the veranda on the St. Paul Mississippi River bluffs is superb.
Mill City Museum. Postmodern in the sense of a modern tech history museum built within the fire-ravished ruins of a national heritage site they didn't care enough about quickly enough to preserve intact. Technology of flour milling back when Minneapolis/St. Paul was where Great Plains wheat went to become flour for the country.
Actually, I think you're on to something. Here in Minnesota, they refunded all the stop light traffic cam fines because the plausible deniability meant the cams went against the state constitution. Precedent against _just_ RFID sniffing establishing an identity.
How much is the typical bribe to a patent supervisor? This is truly a laughable one. I'm not going to bother counting the number of XML books I have on our home book shelves. I guess Microsoft sent them back through the time machine in the Redmond basement.
Sometimes the North too. I was in a metro Taco Bell a couple years ago with sort of a weird floor plan where the dining area wasn't at all visible from the counter. TV was tuned to a daytime movie. Worker drone comes in and starts quizzing the guy under the TV, "Did you change the channel? Oh, man. I could get in trouble." And then he changed it, apparently back, to FOX news.
Watch Battlestar Galactica together instead American Idol. Socializing at Mensa and the Sci Fi club instead of church. Take a weekend trip to the Native American petroglyphs site instead of going to the Indian casino. Fly to a whale-watching cruise instead of a trip to Vegas.
Same but different. Doing "stuff" together. I suspect considerably more "alone time" must be allocated for reading in particular but, otherwise, the underlying relationship dynamics are the same.
I've often wondered whether that's a class and society-based distinction. I've known a couple families whose fathers were something quite successful, but arguably scummy, like an advertising executive pushing cigarette commercials targeted at kids. After a lifetime of hearing that people are suckers and you should get yours, their less intelligent children turn up in careers like Christian cult cell roofing repair salesman team leaders roaming disaster areas for suckers, or something equally transient and even less legal.
So it doesn't surprise me that there are differences in the wetware. I imagine we'll find differences evident in all personalities and talents, but I'd like to know whether they are inherited in infants who haven't had the benefits of much psychopathic home education yet before I get too excited that it's "genetic." For me, it only gets really interesting if it is a spontaneous growth that _doesn't_ seem to be stimulated by experience. Should it be removed like a tumor? Or should they be drafted into the infantry to walk point like Nordic berserkers?
The A v. P books are pretty good. I had such a vision in my mind of what an A v. P movie could be like and the actual products were such steaming piles of dog shit, I can't think of a greater contrast. I think there can be life left in the series but it better be good to wash away the stink of some of the later attempts.
Exactly. Actually, I was a little surprised. You look at the organic produce shelves of some supermarkets and some of that stuff can look a little ratty. The argument is that you lock in more vitamins by fast freezing the veggies at the factory farm, so organic produce might actually have less vitamin content.
But it isn't just pesticides and the environmental impact. There's the damn estrogen-mimicking lining in cans and microwave packaging. Added sugar, of one sort or another, in EVERTHING. Probably salt too. And whatever chemicals are trendy in the industry at the moment.
So, yeah. The study measured what it measured. Not much to see here though.
My school tried but they didn't break me. Made me stay after school in sixth grade because I was made to understand that was the last chance they had to hassle me about penmanship. I guess that was around 1963. I knew even then I'd be taking typing, going to college and would have a typewriter at school anyway, so screw it.
Worked with an Aussie expat here in the states. Still happy to talk about the stiff upper provincial lip in how they made her wear panties in the school colors in primary school. Something psychosexual going on there.
Sure, now you want broadband. Before we know it, you'll want universal health care.
I have to suspect like some other people here that it will help business in South Africa first and the universities and some urban affluent second in the various countries. A lot of "urban" people in Soweto would still love to live in a U.S. trailer park so I'm not sure broadband to their home is a first priority. But we shouldn't discount the value of a neighborhood cyber cafe.
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and our state's record of proceedings. I highly recommend the exercise. People who have never had the experience have no idea what horrors don't make it out of committee to catch the eye of the news.
I still think, "If we build the hardware, consciousness will come" is a stupidly inefficient imitation of evolution at best.
"Fuck you! i do not owe you any money so you sort it out, it is not my problem"
Been there. Done that. Basically, just means the collector will pour another one for me that night.
Student Loan web site has a convenient page where the debtor can change their address themselves. Some chick just keeps putting in my wife's address and phone number. We're past due for another call so I can't say whether the dumb bastards at the student loan collection agency have put in a way to flag people who do that or not.
Her first attempt was a Sams Club. The obviously Chinese collections agency actually gave me the SSN they had on record. I may have written it down but I lost it. Geez, imagine the fun I could have had if I would have realized she would be such a pain in the ass later.
Clinging to the least necessary Windows as an annoying middleware to Adobe web tools running in a qemu VM after 8 years with a linux desktop. When I say least, I mean XP stripped down to barest classic view, barest servers and optimized for acceptable performance. If Adobe came out with linux versions of everything, a whole class of tech people wouldn't need Windows.
Should I start with "Sonny, back in _my_ day...?" Makes me feel good. Geez, in the 80s we ran a summer school for a couple hundred staff and a couple thousand kids on frackin' green screen, dual-floppy 4.77 mhz IBM PCs. And except for MS-DOS the software was mostly WordPerfect and dBase. I guess the fact that some bureaucrat in Mali can't play Bioshock on the office computer on his lunch break is surprisingly low on my list of liberal heart bleeds.
Say not more. Wink, wink. Nudge, nudge.
We all know the hours congressman spend agonizing over legislation before they vote. Who could argue against that argument from authority?
Pure amoral narcissistic self interest.
"So, your family watches presidential addresses but never watches FOX News. What are you, socialists?"
For years, the shit-for-brains national student loan collection agency has called periodically to try to collect "her" loan. She hasn't taken a college course in 30+ years, they always "remove" her -- and they always call back in another year or so. _Identity_ theft, not identity _theft_. We've also dealt with her ghost's bad Sam's Club account. My wife sounds exactly like the sort of person who will get hit by this if they don't fix it.
I think the private aquarium in the basement of Mall of America deserves some credit. To compare it to the old National Aquarium in the basement of Labor on the D.C. Mall I think would be an insult to Underwater World, but it obviously doesn't have space like the Shedd. Lot of sharks, many species and many displays but it doesn't do something like a dolphin show. The main attraction is one of those acrylic walk-through designs for better or worse. Mostly better because it's a lot of fun and reasonably long.
Science Museum of Minnesota. Dunno. They all look alike to me. Floors of demos and interactive projects for kids, dinosaur bones, theaters and a marine emphasis with the tugboat and Mississippi River education. Plan for good weather and the veranda on the St. Paul Mississippi River bluffs is superb.
Couple specialties:
The Pavek Museum of Broadcasting, 12,000 sq. feet of antique equipment display, training, restoration, etc.
Mill City Museum. Postmodern in the sense of a modern tech history museum built within the fire-ravished ruins of a national heritage site they didn't care enough about quickly enough to preserve intact. Technology of flour milling back when Minneapolis/St. Paul was where Great Plains wheat went to become flour for the country.
If counties were smart, they'd have a "serve one, get a second silly one" deal.
So post-industrial society looks a lot like pre-industrial society? A deer, a stream, a tepee and a fire?
As radio announcer Thom Hartmann says, corporations want to privatize the profit and dump the liabilities on the commons. That's the ticket.
Actually, I think you're on to something. Here in Minnesota, they refunded all the stop light traffic cam fines because the plausible deniability meant the cams went against the state constitution. Precedent against _just_ RFID sniffing establishing an identity.
How much is the typical bribe to a patent supervisor? This is truly a laughable one. I'm not going to bother counting the number of XML books I have on our home book shelves. I guess Microsoft sent them back through the time machine in the Redmond basement.
Sometimes the North too. I was in a metro Taco Bell a couple years ago with sort of a weird floor plan where the dining area wasn't at all visible from the counter. TV was tuned to a daytime movie. Worker drone comes in and starts quizzing the guy under the TV, "Did you change the channel? Oh, man. I could get in trouble." And then he changed it, apparently back, to FOX news.
Watch Battlestar Galactica together instead American Idol. Socializing at Mensa and the Sci Fi club instead of church. Take a weekend trip to the Native American petroglyphs site instead of going to the Indian casino. Fly to a whale-watching cruise instead of a trip to Vegas.
Same but different. Doing "stuff" together. I suspect considerably more "alone time" must be allocated for reading in particular but, otherwise, the underlying relationship dynamics are the same.
I've often wondered whether that's a class and society-based distinction. I've known a couple families whose fathers were something quite successful, but arguably scummy, like an advertising executive pushing cigarette commercials targeted at kids. After a lifetime of hearing that people are suckers and you should get yours, their less intelligent children turn up in careers like Christian cult cell roofing repair salesman team leaders roaming disaster areas for suckers, or something equally transient and even less legal.
So it doesn't surprise me that there are differences in the wetware. I imagine we'll find differences evident in all personalities and talents, but I'd like to know whether they are inherited in infants who haven't had the benefits of much psychopathic home education yet before I get too excited that it's "genetic." For me, it only gets really interesting if it is a spontaneous growth that _doesn't_ seem to be stimulated by experience. Should it be removed like a tumor? Or should they be drafted into the infantry to walk point like Nordic berserkers?
The A v. P books are pretty good. I had such a vision in my mind of what an A v. P movie could be like and the actual products were such steaming piles of dog shit, I can't think of a greater contrast. I think there can be life left in the series but it better be good to wash away the stink of some of the later attempts.
Exactly. Actually, I was a little surprised. You look at the organic produce shelves of some supermarkets and some of that stuff can look a little ratty. The argument is that you lock in more vitamins by fast freezing the veggies at the factory farm, so organic produce might actually have less vitamin content.
But it isn't just pesticides and the environmental impact. There's the damn estrogen-mimicking lining in cans and microwave packaging. Added sugar, of one sort or another, in EVERTHING. Probably salt too. And whatever chemicals are trendy in the industry at the moment.
So, yeah. The study measured what it measured. Not much to see here though.
Just let the decades go by until the next dark ages, the things crumble, and they create incomprehensible magic death zones?
Yup -- Kansas Neo-Sod House chic. But the article does use the ominous word, "erecting" where "burying" would be more hopeful.
My school tried but they didn't break me. Made me stay after school in sixth grade because I was made to understand that was the last chance they had to hassle me about penmanship. I guess that was around 1963. I knew even then I'd be taking typing, going to college and would have a typewriter at school anyway, so screw it.
Worked with an Aussie expat here in the states. Still happy to talk about the stiff upper provincial lip in how they made her wear panties in the school colors in primary school. Something psychosexual going on there.
Sure, now you want broadband. Before we know it, you'll want universal health care.
I have to suspect like some other people here that it will help business in South Africa first and the universities and some urban affluent second in the various countries. A lot of "urban" people in Soweto would still love to live in a U.S. trailer park so I'm not sure broadband to their home is a first priority. But we shouldn't discount the value of a neighborhood cyber cafe.