This little collateral duty of mine has been quite lucrative - I receive a percentage of whatever money the company saved by firing the dirtbag admins who couldn't keep their noses out of other people's data. And if they were willing to pass on what essentially is inter-office gossip, then who is to say that they wouldn't be just as willing to pass our trade secrets to outsiders?
Ummm...I'd watch your ass. First off, someone that is passing off trade secrets isn't going to be interested in petty office gossip and if they're smart they'll keep their nose clean elsewhere while they bleed you dry. Secondly, it's not going to take even the dullest admin long to put two and two together and come looking for you.
It's nice seeing how science catches up to science fiction.
I suspect in this case, it is closer to 'necessity being the mother of invention'....
Goffer himself was paralysed in an accident in 1997 but he cannot use his own invention because he does not have full function of his arms.
The system, which requires crutches to help with balance, consists of motorized leg supports, body sensors and a back pack containing a computerized control box and rechargeable batteries.
Now here is technology that may help in that: Big Dog Robot Walker If you haven't seen this you won't believe the video. And yes, it's real...it's not a hoax.
This has been built to carry heavy loads for military purposes. But what great things it will be able to do for civilians if they can have legs or an exoskeleton that helps them keep their balance!
If the original 14-year term (IIRC) were in effect, those games would now belong to all of us, and this fellow could sell his consoles without being accused of stealing somebody else's work.
Did I miss something...I don't see where it says these were 14+ year old games. Granted, it's likely given the number of games installed, but chips can hold a lot more also.
I bought something similar I think, once--thought it would be fun--one of these anthologies of old Atari or PC games. It was a huge rip off--it had about a dozen copies of "Paper Boy" under other names and most of the other games were really lame.
Fahrenheit 451 and Orwell's 1984 should be required reading in our schools.
Unfortunately, I suspect too many students associate Bradbury's work with Michael Moore's film.
I remember reading a number of short stories or excerpt from Bradbury. One that still brings goosebumps is "There Will Come Soft Rains" about an automated house that carries on, not knowing that the owners have all been killed by a nuclear blast:
"The garden sprinklers whirled up in golden founts, filling the soft morning air with scatterings of brightness. The water pelted windowpanes, running down the charred west side where the house had been burned evenly free of its white paint. The entire west face of the house was black, save for five places. Here the silhouette in paint of a man mowing a lawn. Here, as in a photograph, a woman bent to pick flowers. Still farther over, their images burned on wood in one titanic instant, a small boy, hands flung into the air; higher up, the image of a thrown ball, and opposite him a girl, hands raised to catch a ball which never came down."
And some are there just to give you chills, such as The Veldt and inspired my own writing aspirations. We had a wonderful high school sophomore English teacher who introduced us to this and many other works. Bradbury is a hacker of the written word.
Firefox remembers the state it was in when it has a problem and is restarted
Emm....yes and no. One of the big problems I had with v3 was it would not save the open tabs even with that selected in the options. And this was with a normal shut down. (CNet fortunately had a version of Tab Mix Plus that worked with v3 and solved the problem.) But I left my other machines with v2.x
The 3.01 came out with no mention if the tab problem was solved. Fortunately TMP gurus are working again. Have not tried it but they have a pre-release version for 3.01.
Personally, after using v3, I didn't see any great additions to where I HAD to have it (a lot like Vista). In fact, trying to alphabetize my bookmarks has become a pain.
Also, I might note that web developers like having an older version of the browser to test pages until the usage percentages go down far enough that it's not worth their time. So (if it becomes) a "pushy" browser reminding you to upgrade, it isn't going to be appreciated.
I worked at home 3 days a week for about a year. I didn't have a problem getting down to work and the type of work I did--working on the internal web site--either it got done or not so it would be easy enough to determine if someone was goofing off. On the plus side, it saved me a 60-mile round trip commute on those days. I was also able to organize my in-office duties of helping people and meetings so I didn't get constantly interrupted. I was the only technical person in our group so there was no one I was leaving behind to get jealous because my duties were so different from everyone else. My job was ideal for telecommuting. However, I wonder if telecommuting help lead to my eventual layoff. We changed managers...the main problem became, I think, that he thought I was a shared resource. IOW that the monies that paid my salary were shared by the other regional managers who used me to keep their web pages up. Then he found out I came out of his budget. Even though I did work for several regions/sections in my group, this manager's idea of a web page was just uploading documents and putting up a link. It wasn't promoted or to be used to help people--more like a file storage. There was no one else to take over my work, but this manager just didn't care that it got done or left other regions in the lurch. So if you telecommute, beware this: Be sure you 'toot your own horn' and make sure upper management knows all the important work you're doing and your contributions. Otherwise it can be "out of site, out of mind" and when cutbacks come up, if they don't value your work and they don't see you, they might just feel cutting you won't hurt the workload.
Oh I DO blame the judges. Liukin clearly should have won. But I think it's ridculous to not just give both the gold if there is a tie. That's what they used to do--both would have gotten the gold, silver would have been skipped as the 3rd place person would remain 3rd.
Of course you won't be able to compete with the companies that do outsource their jobs since their prices are lower than yours.
Not necesarily...I knew someone who had a small in-house computer hardware business. His prices weren't the cheapest. But he had more than one person tell him they'd rather deal with his company because they didn't have to struggle to understand someone speaking broken English.
It's not just being smaller or shorter (although being short, you have a lower center of balance.) When a girl starts to mature into a woman and gains breasts and her hips widen, it throws her center of balance off. This makes a big difference when it comes to performing on things like the balance beam.
Bella Karolyi has been stating openly all along that he's certain that several girls on the Chinese team were under age. (It's fun to watch Bob Costas squirm when he does.) But he's been coaching girls in gymnastics for decades, so he ought to know. And he's said it's nothing new, especially with authoritarian, governments controlling the countries so it's easy to change their documentation:
He recalled Kim Gwang Suk, a North Korean gymnast who showed up at the 1991 world championships with two missing front teeth. Karolyi, who said he thought Kim must have been younger than 11 at the time, and others contended that those front teeth had been baby teeth and that permanent teeth had not yet replaced them. Her coaches said she had lost them years before, during an accident on the uneven bars.
At those world championships, Kim was 4 feet 4 inches and about 62 pounds, and she claimed to be 16. At one point, the North Korean Gymnastics Federation listed her at 15 for three straight years; the federation was later barred from the 1993 world championships for falsifying ages.
"Oh, come on, she was just in diapers and everyone could see that, just like some of the Chinese girls are now," Karolyi said. "If you look close, you can see they still have their baby teeth. Little tiny teeth!"
I'm waiting for the charges of bribery to the judges. They've got the judging now so that anyone who has a player in the event does not have someone from that country judging things. Sounds good. But something is up because the Chinese have scored consistently higher even with major stumbles in their routine while Americans (and other countries) perform practically flawless routines and consistently get scored just below the Chinese. And these are routines with the same or close difficulty levels. The other day an American tied with the Chinese on the uneven parallel and instead of both getting a gold medal, the "computer" automatically ranked the American second.
Actually this isn't new. Doctors have found that it's fairly easy to manipulate memories with photos and there is the development of drugs used to treat PTSD and other victims to erase or lessen traumatic memories.
What was scary was, a few years back, I saw on TV where they took a classroom of kids, made up a scenario--soon the kids believed that scenario happened to them personally.
I have a big problem with this science. While I understand wanting to help victims that might become suicidal, I have a problem with manipulating someone's memory just as I would shooting them up with mind-numbing drugs so they don't feel anything. I think working through the incident would make you far more stronger than taking a pill to blank it out.
I'm voting Libertarian when I can and then voting against the incumbent - regardless of what party he belongs to. We need term limits in Congress. If we got rid of this career politician horseshit, we'd have MUCH better representation in Washington.
So then are you voting libertarian because you support their platform? Or just because you can't stand the other parties?
Voting AGAINST something has never worked. Frankly I don't care for either big party candidate--they're BOTH talking out of both sides of their mouth. But while I agree with some of what the libertarian party says, I have some real issues with some of their stands on things--to the point I could not support them.
Also just voting against the party of the incumbent may make things worse, not better. Not all incumbents are bad, for one. If you want change, you need to work in the grass roots of your party to make changes to the party platform. Both parties are starting to swing wildly off-center to the left while the candidates try to appeal to the centrists and conservatives of their parties.
I confess...I still have my Commodore64 and an Intellivision system (not sure if either even works) even though you can get the same games to play on your PC, PS2, etc. But I do try to keep things pared down when I can get in there. For one thing, especially with computer equipment, I need to get rid of the stuff that is so old, it's useless or broken and just keep around the things I used for testing when a problem comes up. In some ways, I HAVE to do this because I don't have a good place to organize everything, and it would become a big pile of cards, cables and things I've forgotten what they were used for. I've tried to think of something to do with old computer cards that would be cool (and not already done), but I'm not that creative.
Unfortunately, my spouse is a total pack rat.
Maybe you could have your computer bronzed like a baby shoe and put it on display. LOL!
Yes, that's a nice, logical, disinterested way to look at it. However it IS pertinent in that someday this is going to happen to us. Someone is going to attack on a large, coordinated scale and we had better be more prepared than what we've seen in the recent past. We do have a larger structure. Unless of course they are taking the electrical grids down (a likely target) which would cut off all mass communication in the area along with taking down our economy.
It should be somewhat alarming to those of us in the US (although, not surprising) that Pootie-Poot is trying to overthrow the leader of a sovereign nation that is pro-Western. We should be concerned that Russians are moving back into their old nation-building ways and back-tracking on freedoms that seemed to be coming to their people. They are not our friends, nor have they been even remotely in several years, if ever. This is one of the countries that was going around the UN embargo of Iraq to supply them with weapons and enriching themselves under the "oil-for-food" debacle.
I met a rich old man once (early 1980s) who said the secret to his success was never throw anything away.
That would have to be one really cherry car to have gotten that much for it in the 50's!
But for every millionaire that happen to collect the right thing, the old baseball card or rare comic book, I'll bet there are at least 100 old people with newspaper and trash stacked to the ceiling because they can't force themselves to part with any of it.
I go by the 3 rules of cleaning out junk:
1. Am I using it now? If yes, then keep. 2. Is it something sentimental? If yes, then keep (and maybe find a way to display it instead of it sitting in a box gathering dust.) 3. Is it something that I might find a use for later? THROW IT OUT!
Perhaps these unions think that illegal workers deserve a fair wage and humane treatment just like everybody else? Not everyone is afraid of illegal migrants; once you start working alongside them you probably see them as another buddy at your side grueling under the same corporate overlord.
That's like saying, "Don't you think a burglar who breaks into your house deserves to be able to walk off with your stuff." After all, he's just trying to make a better life for himself. I'm not "afraid" of illegal migrants--I just see them as the criminals that they are. Just like not every company is an "overlord." And how about those companies--those who try and do the right thing by not hiring illegal workers for cheap. How are they supposed to compete with those who do? It's not dissimilar to when the North voiced complaints over the fact that the South had slave labor which gave them a trade advantage.
The *kindest* thing would be for us would be to make companies tow the line and fine those who hire illegal workers. That would take care of a lot of the problem--if they can't get jobs, it would force most but the true criminals and drug dealers to comply with immigration law. Which will also run the coyotes, who prey on their own people, out of business. I would also change the law that automatically makes any baby born in the US by a non-citizen into a US citizen. No more "anchor babies." Other countries don't allow this, why should we?
I know well-educated people who have been waiting YEARS to immigrate here. One family in Australia has decided to try and immigrate to Canada, because they think it will be easier going there. Why should a lot of other, unskilled labor be able to get free education, free medical and other services by cutting in line, while those who are law abiding wait for years to immigrate, if ever? Most of those coming across illegally have no desire to become a US citizen--they just want to make as much money as they can then run back to Mexico where they can have a better lifestyle.
This isn't new btw. Unions have been recruiting illegal migrants for as long as there have been unions in the USA. The Justice for Janitors campaign involved a lot of illegal labour; you should watch the Ken Loach film Bread and Roses about the 1990 three week strike in LA - it also happens to be a very good film!
LOL--1990 can hardly be used as an example that the unions have always recruited illegal immigrants. I've got to call BS on that. The support for illegals came as their popularity started to dwindle overall, companies started moving overseas and they needed to beef up their membership. It would be far better if the unions demanded that companies be fined--heavily--for employing illegal workers than to cater to the illegal workers. That's only going to cause more American members to drop out.
But here is the big "secret." Unions are beholden to the democratic party. The democrats WANT illegal aliens--they see them as the new underclass upon which they can heap government benefits. Does anyone really think these people don't also illegally VOTE? (Especially when they make registration so easy, print the ballots in their home language and opposed making voters show some type of ID.) They want to buy them the way they did other minorities in the past and keep them convinced that they need dependence on the government. The republicans are no better, they just want to supply the cheap labor and hope that any social security monies that are collected under fake ids will be sucked up into the government and help prop up social security.
Unions aren't needed where people are treated fairly. The union has been trying to get it's way into foreigned-owned car manufactureres like Toyota and Nissan for years. AFAIK, the UAW has been unable to succeed. Twice the vote to unionized at Nissan has been voted down 2 to 1.
Personally I have no respect for unions anymore since they are actively trying to unionize illegal workers. The union was supposed to be about protecting American jobs, not encouraging those who are breaking the law. Now it's all about the $$$.
But the only real way to get manufacturers back in the US is for it to be more expensive for goods from overseas to come into the US than to be manufactured here. But neither party seems willing to do anything to stop US companies from outsourcing to countries with minimal wages and even more minimal safety practices.
I think a lot of fans will suspect collusion to obfuscate the scoring again. Like they did with the ice skating--they started combining the scores so it isn't obvious that the French judge is lowballing all the American skaters or trying to fix the results.
Well I don't know what they can get from this other than evidence of a possible crime, but not who was on the computer. Unless the library logs people on and off the computers (unlikely), there is corresponding video (extremely unlikely) or the person can be linked by the library computer and the one in the suspects home, etc.
Why these SO short! Are they baby Segways or Segways for babies? The tallest is under 4' the shortest is 1.5' These don't look like they'd be sturdy enough for all but the smallest adults. And small children certainly do NOT need anything to carry them everywhere with no exercise. Kids get little enough of that today as it is.
An interesting thing I saw this morning...a sign offering cash for motorcycles of any model, in any shape. Another enterprising soul has a good idea....
And oh HELL yes...I HATE when people pull up to the left and block your view to turn right...especially when they're at a red light and know they can't go anywhere.
So are you saying if Congress turned into the WWF they'd make better decisions? Well maybe we'd save some tax money if we sold it on PPV. . . . . The first rule of fight club....
Commodity traders CANNOT affect long term oil prices if there is no problems with supply.
And prehaps we wouldn't have to WORRY so much about future supplies if we were less dependent on getting oil tanked over from other countries when we've got plenty to drill right here. Other courtries are exploring off-shore drilling because of rising prices. Remember that WE are not the sole consumers here--there's a lot of emerging nations that will consume more and more. So even though we are cutting back they are not.
If Republicans were serious about an energy policy of the country, they would first mandate that ALL new pipelines between urban centers be able to carry both natural gas and hydrogen. And then they would fix the fiscal budgetary issues and start to invest in translating this economy from carbon to hydrogen. That's what they are there for - *strategic* planning, not reactionary shit they dreamed up because they are up for election in few months.
And if Democrats were serious they would quit the NIMBY attitude regarding drilling, nuclear energy and even wind power. They tie our hands and every turn and then complain there's no alternative energy being worked on.
Actually C-Span went off too. They don't have control of the cameras.
But I've got to love it--we've got a hacker in the bunch:
The Politico reports, "Also, Republicans can thank Shadegg for turning on the microphones the first time. Apparently, the fiesty Arizona conservative started typing random codes into the chamber's public address system and accidentally typed the correct code, allowing Republicans brief access to the microphone before it was turned off again."
And PULEESE let's not pretend that Dems haven't done these stunts too. They've all run out to the steps to protest medicare changes, travelgate report and other times when they were in the minority and things weren't going their way.
Our Congress is tame when you compare it to other countries. Just try watching the PM speak before the UK parliment or legislation in places like Taiwan, India, S. Korea, etc. where they break out in fist fights.
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This little collateral duty of mine has been quite lucrative - I receive a percentage of whatever money the company saved by firing the dirtbag admins who couldn't keep their noses out of other people's data. And if they were willing to pass on what essentially is inter-office gossip, then who is to say that they wouldn't be just as willing to pass our trade secrets to outsiders?
Ummm...I'd watch your ass. First off, someone that is passing off trade secrets isn't going to be interested in petty office gossip and if they're smart they'll keep their nose clean elsewhere while they bleed you dry. Secondly, it's not going to take even the dullest admin long to put two and two together and come looking for you.
Just saying....
Isn't it normal for herd animals to face into the wind so they can smell any preditor in the area? That could be another reason.
It's nice seeing how science catches up to science fiction.
I suspect in this case, it is closer to 'necessity being the mother of invention'....
Goffer himself was paralysed in an accident in 1997 but he cannot use his own invention because he does not have full function of his arms.
The system, which requires crutches to help with balance, consists of motorized leg supports, body sensors and a back pack containing a computerized control box and rechargeable batteries.
Now here is technology that may help in that: Big Dog Robot Walker If you haven't seen this you won't believe the video. And yes, it's real...it's not a hoax.
This has been built to carry heavy loads for military purposes. But what great things it will be able to do for civilians if they can have legs or an exoskeleton that helps them keep their balance!
If the original 14-year term (IIRC) were in effect, those games would now belong to all of us, and this fellow could sell his consoles without being accused of stealing somebody else's work.
Did I miss something...I don't see where it says these were 14+ year old games. Granted, it's likely given the number of games installed, but chips can hold a lot more also.
I bought something similar I think, once--thought it would be fun--one of these anthologies of old Atari or PC games. It was a huge rip off--it had about a dozen copies of "Paper Boy" under other names and most of the other games were really lame.
Fahrenheit 451 and Orwell's 1984 should be required reading in our schools.
Unfortunately, I suspect too many students associate Bradbury's work with Michael Moore's film.
I remember reading a number of short stories or excerpt from Bradbury. One that still brings goosebumps is "There Will Come Soft Rains" about an automated house that carries on, not knowing that the owners have all been killed by a nuclear blast:
"The garden sprinklers whirled up in golden founts, filling the soft morning air with scatterings of brightness. The water pelted windowpanes, running down the charred west side where the house had been burned evenly free of its white paint. The entire west face of the house was black, save for five places. Here the silhouette in paint of a man mowing a lawn. Here, as in a photograph, a woman bent to pick flowers. Still farther over, their images burned on wood in one titanic instant, a small boy, hands flung into the air; higher up, the image of a thrown ball, and opposite him a girl, hands raised to catch a ball which never came down."
And some are there just to give you chills, such as The Veldt and inspired my own writing aspirations. We had a wonderful high school sophomore English teacher who introduced us to this and many other works. Bradbury is a hacker of the written word.
Firefox remembers the state it was in when it has a problem and is restarted
Emm....yes and no. One of the big problems I had with v3 was it would not save the open tabs even with that selected in the options. And this was with a normal shut down. (CNet fortunately had a version of Tab Mix Plus that worked with v3 and solved the problem.) But I left my other machines with v2.x
The 3.01 came out with no mention if the tab problem was solved. Fortunately TMP gurus are working again. Have not tried it but they have a pre-release version for 3.01.
Personally, after using v3, I didn't see any great additions to where I HAD to have it (a lot like Vista). In fact, trying to alphabetize my bookmarks has become a pain.
Also, I might note that web developers like having an older version of the browser to test pages until the usage percentages go down far enough that it's not worth their time. So (if it becomes) a "pushy" browser reminding you to upgrade, it isn't going to be appreciated.
I worked at home 3 days a week for about a year. I didn't have a problem getting down to work and the type of work I did--working on the internal web site--either it got done or not so it would be easy enough to determine if someone was goofing off. On the plus side, it saved me a 60-mile round trip commute on those days. I was also able to organize my in-office duties of helping people and meetings so I didn't get constantly interrupted. I was the only technical person in our group so there was no one I was leaving behind to get jealous because my duties were so different from everyone else. My job was ideal for telecommuting. However, I wonder if telecommuting help lead to my eventual layoff. We changed managers...the main problem became, I think, that he thought I was a shared resource. IOW that the monies that paid my salary were shared by the other regional managers who used me to keep their web pages up. Then he found out I came out of his budget. Even though I did work for several regions/sections in my group, this manager's idea of a web page was just uploading documents and putting up a link. It wasn't promoted or to be used to help people--more like a file storage. There was no one else to take over my work, but this manager just didn't care that it got done or left other regions in the lurch. So if you telecommute, beware this: Be sure you 'toot your own horn' and make sure upper management knows all the important work you're doing and your contributions. Otherwise it can be "out of site, out of mind" and when cutbacks come up, if they don't value your work and they don't see you, they might just feel cutting you won't hurt the workload.
Oh I DO blame the judges. Liukin clearly should have won. But I think it's ridculous to not just give both the gold if there is a tie. That's what they used to do--both would have gotten the gold, silver would have been skipped as the 3rd place person would remain 3rd.
Of course you won't be able to compete with the companies that do outsource their jobs since their prices are lower than yours.
Not necesarily...I knew someone who had a small in-house computer hardware business. His prices weren't the cheapest. But he had more than one person tell him they'd rather deal with his company because they didn't have to struggle to understand someone speaking broken English.
It's not just being smaller or shorter (although being short, you have a lower center of balance.) When a girl starts to mature into a woman and gains breasts and her hips widen, it throws her center of balance off. This makes a big difference when it comes to performing on things like the balance beam.
Bella Karolyi has been stating openly all along that he's certain that several girls on the Chinese team were under age. (It's fun to watch Bob Costas squirm when he does.) But he's been coaching girls in gymnastics for decades, so he ought to know. And he's said it's nothing new, especially with authoritarian, governments controlling the countries so it's easy to change their documentation:
He recalled Kim Gwang Suk, a North Korean gymnast who showed up at the 1991 world championships with two missing front teeth. Karolyi, who said he thought Kim must have been younger than 11 at the time, and others contended that those front teeth had been baby teeth and that permanent teeth had not yet replaced them. Her coaches said she had lost them years before, during an accident on the uneven bars.
At those world championships, Kim was 4 feet 4 inches and about 62 pounds, and she claimed to be 16. At one point, the North Korean Gymnastics Federation listed her at 15 for three straight years; the federation was later barred from the 1993 world championships for falsifying ages.
"Oh, come on, she was just in diapers and everyone could see that, just like some of the Chinese girls are now," Karolyi said. "If you look close, you can see they still have their baby teeth. Little tiny teeth!"
I'm waiting for the charges of bribery to the judges. They've got the judging now so that anyone who has a player in the event does not have someone from that country judging things. Sounds good. But something is up because the Chinese have scored consistently higher even with major stumbles in their routine while Americans (and other countries) perform practically flawless routines and consistently get scored just below the Chinese. And these are routines with the same or close difficulty levels. The other day an American tied with the Chinese on the uneven parallel and instead of both getting a gold medal, the "computer" automatically ranked the American second.
Actually this isn't new. Doctors have found that it's fairly easy to manipulate memories with photos and there is the development of drugs used to treat PTSD and other victims to erase or lessen traumatic memories.
What was scary was, a few years back, I saw on TV where they took a classroom of kids, made up a scenario--soon the kids believed that scenario happened to them personally.
I have a big problem with this science. While I understand wanting to help victims that might become suicidal, I have a problem with manipulating someone's memory just as I would shooting them up with mind-numbing drugs so they don't feel anything. I think working through the incident would make you far more stronger than taking a pill to blank it out.
I'm voting Libertarian when I can and then voting against the incumbent - regardless of what party he belongs to. We need term limits in Congress. If we got rid of this career politician horseshit, we'd have MUCH better representation in Washington.
So then are you voting libertarian because you support their platform? Or just because you can't stand the other parties?
Voting AGAINST something has never worked. Frankly I don't care for either big party candidate--they're BOTH talking out of both sides of their mouth. But while I agree with some of what the libertarian party says, I have some real issues with some of their stands on things--to the point I could not support them.
Also just voting against the party of the incumbent may make things worse, not better. Not all incumbents are bad, for one. If you want change, you need to work in the grass roots of your party to make changes to the party platform. Both parties are starting to swing wildly off-center to the left while the candidates try to appeal to the centrists and conservatives of their parties.
I confess...I still have my Commodore64 and an Intellivision system (not sure if either even works) even though you can get the same games to play on your PC, PS2, etc. But I do try to keep things pared down when I can get in there. For one thing, especially with computer equipment, I need to get rid of the stuff that is so old, it's useless or broken and just keep around the things I used for testing when a problem comes up. In some ways, I HAVE to do this because I don't have a good place to organize everything, and it would become a big pile of cards, cables and things I've forgotten what they were used for. I've tried to think of something to do with old computer cards that would be cool (and not already done), but I'm not that creative.
Unfortunately, my spouse is a total pack rat.
Maybe you could have your computer bronzed like a baby shoe and put it on display. LOL!
Yes, that's a nice, logical, disinterested way to look at it. However it IS pertinent in that someday this is going to happen to us. Someone is going to attack on a large, coordinated scale and we had better be more prepared than what we've seen in the recent past. We do have a larger structure. Unless of course they are taking the electrical grids down (a likely target) which would cut off all mass communication in the area along with taking down our economy.
It should be somewhat alarming to those of us in the US (although, not surprising) that Pootie-Poot is trying to overthrow the leader of a sovereign nation that is pro-Western. We should be concerned that Russians are moving back into their old nation-building ways and back-tracking on freedoms that seemed to be coming to their people. They are not our friends, nor have they been even remotely in several years, if ever. This is one of the countries that was going around the UN embargo of Iraq to supply them with weapons and enriching themselves under the "oil-for-food" debacle.
I met a rich old man once (early 1980s) who said the secret to his success was never throw anything away.
That would have to be one really cherry car to have gotten that much for it in the 50's!
But for every millionaire that happen to collect the right thing, the old baseball card or rare comic book, I'll bet there are at least 100 old people with newspaper and trash stacked to the ceiling because they can't force themselves to part with any of it.
I go by the 3 rules of cleaning out junk:
1. Am I using it now? If yes, then keep.
2. Is it something sentimental? If yes, then keep (and maybe find a way to display it instead of it sitting in a box gathering dust.)
3. Is it something that I might find a use for later? THROW IT OUT!
Perhaps these unions think that illegal workers deserve a fair wage and humane treatment just like everybody else? Not everyone is afraid of illegal migrants; once you start working alongside them you probably see them as another buddy at your side grueling under the same corporate overlord.
That's like saying, "Don't you think a burglar who breaks into your house deserves to be able to walk off with your stuff." After all, he's just trying to make a better life for himself. I'm not "afraid" of illegal migrants--I just see them as the criminals that they are. Just like not every company is an "overlord." And how about those companies--those who try and do the right thing by not hiring illegal workers for cheap. How are they supposed to compete with those who do? It's not dissimilar to when the North voiced complaints over the fact that the South had slave labor which gave them a trade advantage.
The *kindest* thing would be for us would be to make companies tow the line and fine those who hire illegal workers. That would take care of a lot of the problem--if they can't get jobs, it would force most but the true criminals and drug dealers to comply with immigration law. Which will also run the coyotes, who prey on their own people, out of business. I would also change the law that automatically makes any baby born in the US by a non-citizen into a US citizen. No more "anchor babies." Other countries don't allow this, why should we?
I know well-educated people who have been waiting YEARS to immigrate here. One family in Australia has decided to try and immigrate to Canada, because they think it will be easier going there. Why should a lot of other, unskilled labor be able to get free education, free medical and other services by cutting in line, while those who are law abiding wait for years to immigrate, if ever? Most of those coming across illegally have no desire to become a US citizen--they just want to make as much money as they can then run back to Mexico where they can have a better lifestyle.
This isn't new btw. Unions have been recruiting illegal migrants for as long as there have been unions in the USA. The Justice for Janitors campaign involved a lot of illegal labour; you should watch the Ken Loach film Bread and Roses about the 1990 three week strike in LA - it also happens to be a very good film!
LOL--1990 can hardly be used as an example that the unions have always recruited illegal immigrants. I've got to call BS on that. The support for illegals came as their popularity started to dwindle overall, companies started moving overseas and they needed to beef up their membership. It would be far better if the unions demanded that companies be fined--heavily--for employing illegal workers than to cater to the illegal workers. That's only going to cause more American members to drop out.
But here is the big "secret." Unions are beholden to the democratic party. The democrats WANT illegal aliens--they see them as the new underclass upon which they can heap government benefits. Does anyone really think these people don't also illegally VOTE? (Especially when they make registration so easy, print the ballots in their home language and opposed making voters show some type of ID.) They want to buy them the way they did other minorities in the past and keep them convinced that they need dependence on the government. The republicans are no better, they just want to supply the cheap labor and hope that any social security monies that are collected under fake ids will be sucked up into the government and help prop up social security.
Unions aren't needed where people are treated fairly. The union has been trying to get it's way into foreigned-owned car manufactureres like Toyota and Nissan for years. AFAIK, the UAW has been unable to succeed. Twice the vote to unionized at Nissan has been voted down 2 to 1.
Personally I have no respect for unions anymore since they are actively trying to unionize illegal workers. The union was supposed to be about protecting American jobs, not encouraging those who are breaking the law. Now it's all about the $$$.
But the only real way to get manufacturers back in the US is for it to be more expensive for goods from overseas to come into the US than to be manufactured here. But neither party seems willing to do anything to stop US companies from outsourcing to countries with minimal wages and even more minimal safety practices.
I think a lot of fans will suspect collusion to obfuscate the scoring again. Like they did with the ice skating--they started combining the scores so it isn't obvious that the French judge is lowballing all the American skaters or trying to fix the results.
Well I don't know what they can get from this other than evidence of a possible crime, but not who was on the computer. Unless the library logs people on and off the computers (unlikely), there is corresponding video (extremely unlikely) or the person can be linked by the library computer and the one in the suspects home, etc.
Why these SO short! Are they baby Segways or Segways for babies? The tallest is under 4' the shortest is 1.5' These don't look like they'd be sturdy enough for all but the smallest adults. And small children certainly do NOT need anything to carry them everywhere with no exercise. Kids get little enough of that today as it is.
An interesting thing I saw this morning...a sign offering cash for motorcycles of any model, in any shape. Another enterprising soul has a good idea....
And oh HELL yes...I HATE when people pull up to the left and block your view to turn right...especially when they're at a red light and know they can't go anywhere.
So are you saying if Congress turned into the WWF they'd make better decisions? Well maybe we'd save some tax money if we sold it on PPV.
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The first rule of fight club....
Commodity traders CANNOT affect long term oil prices if there is no problems with supply.
And prehaps we wouldn't have to WORRY so much about future supplies if we were less dependent on getting oil tanked over from other countries when we've got plenty to drill right here. Other courtries are exploring off-shore drilling because of rising prices. Remember that WE are not the sole consumers here--there's a lot of emerging nations that will consume more and more. So even though we are cutting back they are not.
If Republicans were serious about an energy policy of the country, they would first mandate that ALL new pipelines between urban centers be able to carry both natural gas and hydrogen. And then they would fix the fiscal budgetary issues and start to invest in translating this economy from carbon to hydrogen. That's what they are there for - *strategic* planning, not reactionary shit they dreamed up because they are up for election in few months.
And if Democrats were serious they would quit the NIMBY attitude regarding drilling, nuclear energy and even wind power. They tie our hands and every turn and then complain there's no alternative energy being worked on.
Actually C-Span went off too. They don't have control of the cameras.
But I've got to love it--we've got a hacker in the bunch:
The Politico reports, "Also, Republicans can thank Shadegg for turning on the microphones the first time. Apparently, the fiesty Arizona conservative started typing random codes into the chamber's public address system and accidentally typed the correct code, allowing Republicans brief access to the microphone before it was turned off again."
And PULEESE let's not pretend that Dems haven't done these stunts too. They've all run out to the steps to protest medicare changes, travelgate report and other times when they were in the minority and things weren't going their way.
Our Congress is tame when you compare it to other countries. Just try watching the PM speak before the UK parliment or legislation in places like Taiwan, India, S. Korea, etc. where they break out in fist fights.