As a Christian I can understand why people would want such protections from having their small business's being shutdown because they don't want to participate in a gay wedding or activity. The law is the same as the Federal law that was signed by Bill Clinton and has been adopted by 26 other states. Even the State of CT one of the largest Gay protectorates in the US has that same law on the books. That being said I would say as a Christian I would not hesitate providing services to gay people at gay events. Money is money even if I don't agree with their activities. St. Paul says to Christians, to eat meat that was previously sacrifced to Roman gods because the food ultimately comes from God. I look at work contracts that come from the Gay community in the same way. It's work that is comming from God and it's resources being provided ultimately from God. Jesus would never turn away people for just being gay. He welcomed every shunned person in the first century, Women, Prostitutes, Publicans, tax collectors and others. I don't see why he would not welcome gay people either. I think American Christians need to be more like Christ and less like their favorite TV preachers. Sorry folks for taking up too many words or being snarky here like many others.
The 60 Watt equivalent bulbs I bought at Home Cheapo say they burn at 5 to 10 watts. So are the Graphene bulbs 10% more efficient than the current LED Bulbs? Or only 10% more efficient than incandescent bulbs? If the later is true than it's not worth the price...
These guys live off the public teet and they will never be satisfied. They need to constantly fear monger or their grant funds will dry up. They won't ever be satisfied until a plague kills off 3/4 of man kind and the rest of us who live are living in caves. Until that happens these guys will not be satified. Here it is almost April and I still have 2 feet of snow in my back yard here in CT. If the globe was 2 degrees colder I don't know what I would do I'm freezing at it is. There has not yet been a day this year, here that has been over 55 degrees.
I think the Republicans would be better off getting Meg Whitman to run. She cleaned up Ebay, my favorite place to shop, and she is fixing all that Carly broke at HP. Or maybe if Carly gets elected then we will need to elect Meg after her to fix what Carly broke. Of course after 8 years Bush Jr. and 8 years with Obama I can't see much left to break.
They might have to do it because if you revolve your life around Facebook you just might get suicidal. I guess suicide is unintended side effect for too many hours spend on Facebook.
I don't mind the bloatware. I can take a few hours out of my life and go through the computer and uninstall what I don't want. Not all that hard. Since it means that I get the 1K machine for 500. Actually what I like to do is buy the 500 dollar machine on Ebay, usually one of those vendors that take in corporate returns and auction off the computers without the hard drives. I then throw in a nice SSD and fill it full of RAM and I end up with a 1500 dollar machine for around 500 but of course it all takes a little work. As for the bloatware that's a problem for Mr and Mrs. J Q (Ignorant) Public who trapse down to Best Buy and or Costco and buy that new computer because it looks nice and not because of any true specifications and features.
Once they get this down, what will keep us from having a situation kind of like the movie Free Jack? The whole time travel issue aside. Right now China and ISIS are harvesting organs for sale on the open market. Now they can just harvest the whole carcase in one shot. I could go and purchase the body of an 18 year old and have another go at life as a young guy?
The German Government complained that the US was using 12 Gage Pump Shotguns in the trenches in WWI and issued a decree that they would court martial any person carrying one. They claimed that it went against this treaty and against the treaty of 1907 land warfare treaty. The Americans saw it differently and to the victors goes the fine print of all treaties... The Trench Broom...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W...
Maybe I ought to switch to weed..... or maybe I'll just add weed to the mix Oh no!!! Alcohol has become the gateway drug to smoking weed OMG WTF !!! What next coke, heroin, crystal meth...... Is there no end to all this insanity?????
1. I drink to get that little lift or buzz
2. Sometimes I drink to get hammered
3. Sometimes I drink because you can't trust the water
4. I drink because I like the variations of what I'm drinking. I love beer and I like some wines. White Russians are good and straight shots of tequila are good too.
5. I drink to be social and I'm one social beast...
as for the health benefits, I really don't factor those in when I'm getting my drink on.
I live between Springfield and just South of Southwick MA here in Granby CT, in the "notch." We got 8 inches yesterday. My buddy came by yesterday with his plow and we got the whole placed cleaned up in 15 minutes. Where in Eastern MA it's still snowing and they got 3 feet. I guess the storm was further East than what they thought it would track, thank God. We had a 3 footer 2 years ago and it was hell cleaning up after that. Took me 3 hours just to do my walk ways. All I can say I dodged the bullet....
So I'm told all the younger kids 16 and under don't even use Facebook any more. My daughter who is 18 uses it but none of the kids younger than her do. I think kids don't want to get busted by their parents and their schools of the things they do and they don't want permanent evidence of the things that young kids do. I guess the kids like to use snap chat now and the latest is the Apple Air Drop and what ever the android equivalent is. So Facebook is for us old people. As for Google Plus I have it because I have a Google account because I have several android phones and some of my comments here and there get posted there. I guess Google plus is what it is but I don't consider it something I take serious. As for Google purchasing Facebook? Big waste of money.
I have been calling the Senator's office for the past couple of weeks when I heard that my Senator was sponsoring the bill to double the amount of H1B Visa's. I have sent letters and I have done my level best to harras the office. I'm pretty much ready to be swatted by them. You walk into any of the Insurance companies in Hartford as an American and you will be a lonely person amidst the sea of South Asian / Sub Continent Workers. The visa's are not going to "Brain Trust" workers they are going to server admins, network admins, storage and backup storage admins, DBA's and rank and file developers / coders. You would think that the H1B visa program would be looking for people with unique skill sets not skill sets that are displacing American workers. I"m not alone in this either from being a mid tier administrator. I have friends how are electrical engineers, mechanical engineers who are being displaced. I have friends who are PM's being replaced. US companies are finding out that outsourcing their IT to overseas concerns has not worked out for them that well. So now they are just getting visas for those same people to come here and ruin the type of jobs we went to school to do. So we have Mexican and Latin American's flooding our borders taking menial labor jobs and we have Asians flooding our embassies betting H1B's and that leaves the rest of us out of work. Hell I would grow marijuana just to make ends meet but everyone else in town is dong the same. Sen Bluementhal's office is saying that he supports this because there is language that is supposed to stop all the past abuses of the program. Yeah right. Time to get in the soup line folks...
I have a 1999 Dodge Ram 1500 and it has a 318 engine in it. That engine has been around since 1967 and ended production in 2002. I put duel glasspacks on my truck just to make sure I had a good MOPAR rumble going on under my truck.
I think when it comes to grades in College going to class and participating trumps just about everything else. I went back after I graduated and took 2 semesters of business classes and the second semester I failed to make any of my finals. I thought wow I"m in trouble. I got all A's and B+'s anyways. I guess I"m very likeable and the professors didn't have the heart to give me an incomplete...
If my ancestors wanted to be European they would have stayed...... The place sucks and that is why the left. They left for greener and more free pastures right here in the US of A.
I got outsourced from my company (Large Insurance Company) to a three letter integrator that starts with I and ends with M. I worked for that large integrator for 2 and 1/2 years. Then the axe came and they laid me off. I worked for another huge insurance company for 3 months and then got the call to come back to my same job same seat same everything but as a contractor. I took the position back because I got sick of driving to Boston from Hartford / Springfield every day. I don't know why the integrator thinks it's better to fill their rolls with contractors but they do. Each time I got laid off I got a huge package which wasn't bad either though of course if I get laid off now I'm going to have to rush finding something quicker than before. I feel like I"m falling off the ladder of success and hitting every rung on the way down....
The long short is 90% of all trial judges will side with the individual because they don't want to keep a person from gainful employment. What else you expect this guy to do bag groceries?
I'm a backup administrator who works for a large insurance company. Any customer facing data is backed up monthly and saved for 10 years. Any data that the legal department feels might be subpoenaed is saved for 10 years. The IRS had to know that the emails were being actively investigated by congress and they were and are legally bound to have done due diligence and made sure they were all backed up and saved for a reasonable amount of time. Congress needs to send independent FBI investigators in and make sure what was testified was the truth and that there was no foul play going on. If in fact this was all a awful mistake then fine if not then people need to face charges of hindering an investigation, contempt of congress, lying to congress and on and on. The FBI needs to audit along the DR policies of the IRS. The whole we are sorry the PC crashed and or the hard drives were wiped and sent to be recycled rings hollow. It really smells like a cover up and this is what I would consider a constitutional crisis. Allowing the IRS to serve as a political weapon. That needs to stop and people need to go to jail. This is actually much worse than Watergate. As Watergate was comical and slightly sinister with the coverup. This is just plain evil. It's what I would expect from Russia or China and places like that.
1. I don't like or condone theft, vandalism or destruction of company property under just about every circumstances. The only thing I could think of that I might say it's acceptable if they were committing atrocities like mass killings and other capital offenses. They guy was being fired so as soon as the company decided to fire this guy they should have implemented security measures right there. As for the Idiot facing 4 years in the federal joint? Well I don't feel sorry for his stupid arse. He should have kept his mouth shut and not admitted to anything. He should have gotten a lawyer or at least got a lawyer that would have done his job. Maybe the 4 years was part of the plea deal. I think it's probably an appropriate punishment. He probably effectively shutdown this company until they had a chance to restore all their systems, I hope he didn't destroy the backup catalogs and backup images because if he did then I would say give him life....
He would have had me if he never invoked McVeigh's name. I can't stand by murders of people and those who do. Too bad because most everything he said in the letter was true. But when you mix in one lie with a pile of truth you end up with a pile of lies.
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As a Christian I can understand why people would want such protections from having their small business's being shutdown because they don't want to participate in a gay wedding or activity. The law is the same as the Federal law that was signed by Bill Clinton and has been adopted by 26 other states. Even the State of CT one of the largest Gay protectorates in the US has that same law on the books. That being said I would say as a Christian I would not hesitate providing services to gay people at gay events. Money is money even if I don't agree with their activities. St. Paul says to Christians, to eat meat that was previously sacrifced to Roman gods because the food ultimately comes from God. I look at work contracts that come from the Gay community in the same way. It's work that is comming from God and it's resources being provided ultimately from God. Jesus would never turn away people for just being gay. He welcomed every shunned person in the first century, Women, Prostitutes, Publicans, tax collectors and others. I don't see why he would not welcome gay people either. I think American Christians need to be more like Christ and less like their favorite TV preachers. Sorry folks for taking up too many words or being snarky here like many others.
The 60 Watt equivalent bulbs I bought at Home Cheapo say they burn at 5 to 10 watts. So are the Graphene bulbs 10% more efficient than the current LED Bulbs? Or only 10% more efficient than incandescent bulbs? If the later is true than it's not worth the price...
These guys live off the public teet and they will never be satisfied. They need to constantly fear monger or their grant funds will dry up. They won't ever be satisfied until a plague kills off 3/4 of man kind and the rest of us who live are living in caves. Until that happens these guys will not be satified. Here it is almost April and I still have 2 feet of snow in my back yard here in CT. If the globe was 2 degrees colder I don't know what I would do I'm freezing at it is. There has not yet been a day this year, here that has been over 55 degrees.
I think the Republicans would be better off getting Meg Whitman to run. She cleaned up Ebay, my favorite place to shop, and she is fixing all that Carly broke at HP. Or maybe if Carly gets elected then we will need to elect Meg after her to fix what Carly broke. Of course after 8 years Bush Jr. and 8 years with Obama I can't see much left to break.
Mexican's mad at the Republican's holding up the Presidents amnesty cut the line in protest...
They might have to do it because if you revolve your life around Facebook you just might get suicidal. I guess suicide is unintended side effect for too many hours spend on Facebook.
I don't mind the bloatware. I can take a few hours out of my life and go through the computer and uninstall what I don't want. Not all that hard. Since it means that I get the 1K machine for 500. Actually what I like to do is buy the 500 dollar machine on Ebay, usually one of those vendors that take in corporate returns and auction off the computers without the hard drives. I then throw in a nice SSD and fill it full of RAM and I end up with a 1500 dollar machine for around 500 but of course it all takes a little work. As for the bloatware that's a problem for Mr and Mrs. J Q (Ignorant) Public who trapse down to Best Buy and or Costco and buy that new computer because it looks nice and not because of any true specifications and features.
Once they get this down, what will keep us from having a situation kind of like the movie Free Jack? The whole time travel issue aside. Right now China and ISIS are harvesting organs for sale on the open market. Now they can just harvest the whole carcase in one shot. I could go and purchase the body of an 18 year old and have another go at life as a young guy?
The German Government complained that the US was using 12 Gage Pump Shotguns in the trenches in WWI and issued a decree that they would court martial any person carrying one. They claimed that it went against this treaty and against the treaty of 1907 land warfare treaty. The Americans saw it differently and to the victors goes the fine print of all treaties... The Trench Broom... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W...
Maybe I ought to switch to weed..... or maybe I'll just add weed to the mix Oh no!!! Alcohol has become the gateway drug to smoking weed OMG WTF !!! What next coke, heroin, crystal meth...... Is there no end to all this insanity?????
1. I drink to get that little lift or buzz 2. Sometimes I drink to get hammered 3. Sometimes I drink because you can't trust the water 4. I drink because I like the variations of what I'm drinking. I love beer and I like some wines. White Russians are good and straight shots of tequila are good too. 5. I drink to be social and I'm one social beast... as for the health benefits, I really don't factor those in when I'm getting my drink on.
I live between Springfield and just South of Southwick MA here in Granby CT, in the "notch." We got 8 inches yesterday. My buddy came by yesterday with his plow and we got the whole placed cleaned up in 15 minutes. Where in Eastern MA it's still snowing and they got 3 feet. I guess the storm was further East than what they thought it would track, thank God. We had a 3 footer 2 years ago and it was hell cleaning up after that. Took me 3 hours just to do my walk ways. All I can say I dodged the bullet....
So I'm told all the younger kids 16 and under don't even use Facebook any more. My daughter who is 18 uses it but none of the kids younger than her do. I think kids don't want to get busted by their parents and their schools of the things they do and they don't want permanent evidence of the things that young kids do. I guess the kids like to use snap chat now and the latest is the Apple Air Drop and what ever the android equivalent is. So Facebook is for us old people. As for Google Plus I have it because I have a Google account because I have several android phones and some of my comments here and there get posted there. I guess Google plus is what it is but I don't consider it something I take serious. As for Google purchasing Facebook? Big waste of money.
I have been calling the Senator's office for the past couple of weeks when I heard that my Senator was sponsoring the bill to double the amount of H1B Visa's. I have sent letters and I have done my level best to harras the office. I'm pretty much ready to be swatted by them. You walk into any of the Insurance companies in Hartford as an American and you will be a lonely person amidst the sea of South Asian / Sub Continent Workers. The visa's are not going to "Brain Trust" workers they are going to server admins, network admins, storage and backup storage admins, DBA's and rank and file developers / coders. You would think that the H1B visa program would be looking for people with unique skill sets not skill sets that are displacing American workers. I"m not alone in this either from being a mid tier administrator. I have friends how are electrical engineers, mechanical engineers who are being displaced. I have friends who are PM's being replaced. US companies are finding out that outsourcing their IT to overseas concerns has not worked out for them that well. So now they are just getting visas for those same people to come here and ruin the type of jobs we went to school to do. So we have Mexican and Latin American's flooding our borders taking menial labor jobs and we have Asians flooding our embassies betting H1B's and that leaves the rest of us out of work. Hell I would grow marijuana just to make ends meet but everyone else in town is dong the same. Sen Bluementhal's office is saying that he supports this because there is language that is supposed to stop all the past abuses of the program. Yeah right. Time to get in the soup line folks...
I have a 1999 Dodge Ram 1500 and it has a 318 engine in it. That engine has been around since 1967 and ended production in 2002. I put duel glasspacks on my truck just to make sure I had a good MOPAR rumble going on under my truck.
I think when it comes to grades in College going to class and participating trumps just about everything else. I went back after I graduated and took 2 semesters of business classes and the second semester I failed to make any of my finals. I thought wow I"m in trouble. I got all A's and B+'s anyways. I guess I"m very likeable and the professors didn't have the heart to give me an incomplete...
If my ancestors wanted to be European they would have stayed...... The place sucks and that is why the left. They left for greener and more free pastures right here in the US of A.
All state schools should be free.
I got outsourced from my company (Large Insurance Company) to a three letter integrator that starts with I and ends with M. I worked for that large integrator for 2 and 1/2 years. Then the axe came and they laid me off. I worked for another huge insurance company for 3 months and then got the call to come back to my same job same seat same everything but as a contractor. I took the position back because I got sick of driving to Boston from Hartford / Springfield every day. I don't know why the integrator thinks it's better to fill their rolls with contractors but they do. Each time I got laid off I got a huge package which wasn't bad either though of course if I get laid off now I'm going to have to rush finding something quicker than before. I feel like I"m falling off the ladder of success and hitting every rung on the way down....
CT has done so and there is absolutely no job growth in CT before or after the wage increase.
The long short is 90% of all trial judges will side with the individual because they don't want to keep a person from gainful employment. What else you expect this guy to do bag groceries?
All they are doing is speeding up on the yellow, same thing.... Need to write some tickets and that will slow them down.
I'm a backup administrator who works for a large insurance company. Any customer facing data is backed up monthly and saved for 10 years. Any data that the legal department feels might be subpoenaed is saved for 10 years. The IRS had to know that the emails were being actively investigated by congress and they were and are legally bound to have done due diligence and made sure they were all backed up and saved for a reasonable amount of time. Congress needs to send independent FBI investigators in and make sure what was testified was the truth and that there was no foul play going on. If in fact this was all a awful mistake then fine if not then people need to face charges of hindering an investigation, contempt of congress, lying to congress and on and on. The FBI needs to audit along the DR policies of the IRS. The whole we are sorry the PC crashed and or the hard drives were wiped and sent to be recycled rings hollow. It really smells like a cover up and this is what I would consider a constitutional crisis. Allowing the IRS to serve as a political weapon. That needs to stop and people need to go to jail. This is actually much worse than Watergate. As Watergate was comical and slightly sinister with the coverup. This is just plain evil. It's what I would expect from Russia or China and places like that.
1. I don't like or condone theft, vandalism or destruction of company property under just about every circumstances. The only thing I could think of that I might say it's acceptable if they were committing atrocities like mass killings and other capital offenses. They guy was being fired so as soon as the company decided to fire this guy they should have implemented security measures right there. As for the Idiot facing 4 years in the federal joint? Well I don't feel sorry for his stupid arse. He should have kept his mouth shut and not admitted to anything. He should have gotten a lawyer or at least got a lawyer that would have done his job. Maybe the 4 years was part of the plea deal. I think it's probably an appropriate punishment. He probably effectively shutdown this company until they had a chance to restore all their systems, I hope he didn't destroy the backup catalogs and backup images because if he did then I would say give him life....
He would have had me if he never invoked McVeigh's name. I can't stand by murders of people and those who do. Too bad because most everything he said in the letter was true. But when you mix in one lie with a pile of truth you end up with a pile of lies.