McDonald's is also a great place for networking. Many marketing directors for former dotcoms now with "Several years experience in all facets of counter communication"
I'm more concerned with the charity loophole. The group "Lighthouse Credit Foundation" was busted by NY last year for calling people with automated messages (I average 3 calls a month from them myself) and no way to get off their lists. They claim they're exempt because they're a so-called charity offering debt relief.
Agreed.
If you'll listen to these messages, almost all of them say "non-profit" somewhere in the message, which apparently allows them to call.
A few months ago, I was receiving 1-2 calls per month from Lighthouse Credit Foundation. They included an 800 number. I called the 800 number, asked them to put me on their do-not-call list. Since then, I have not received a single phone call from them.
However, I do get one or more 'nonprofit credit counseling" phone calls ever since I made that call. Suspicious.
There have been a quite a few stories lately of governments cutting budgets and seriously examining the use of Linux in their offices. I'm getting the strong impression that the majority of government desktops will become Linux desktops. Is this true?
There is a big difference between "examining" and "implementation".
Governments, like most large institutions, are slow to change. Changing from Windows to Linux desktops costs money. Many State and City governments in the US are in the midst of their worst budget crisis' in 20-40 years. Now is when the freeze spending, lay off workers, and cancel research. They're not just going to change willy-nilly.
I am actually talking to people who work for several cities in the San Francisco Bay Area about using Gnome or KDE for their desktops (I'm probing out of curiosity, and I want to see what's planned for 2 years down the line).
Their additude about switching desktops is usually something like "Sure, Linux could be great, but are you INSANE? We'll save $x00 tops, but it will cost nearly that much to install the new software, train everyone to use it, and then fix the bugs."
As of right now, how many US state governments and Canadian provincial governments -do not- use Linux for their work stations?
None? We occasionally see small cities switching to Linux, but I doubt that there are any State governments who use Linux Desktops on a systemwide level.
Look, I love the Linux desktop. I use Gnome almost on a daily basis, but I still need to use Windows to run MS Office so that I can send my resume to people who request MS Word format. If I send it using any other format (including OpenOffice's MS Word format), I get complaints on the other side like "The formatting is all screwey".
Smart dust? Tracking chips for all products, and then humans-the "little kid wandering more than 50 feet away from mommy"?
Well, there are non-dark uses for these technologies also. The UC Berkeley physical plant enginners are using smart dust technology to automate large parts of their electcial grid. I'm friends with one of the head engineers there, and he's estactic by the amount of work saved by these things. Tasks that used to take hours can now take minutes.
Here's one example: Durng a power outage, for example, engineers can pull up the campus's power grid on one of six computer monitors at the control center, zoom in on the problem area, then click on it to view the electrical drawings for that spot. Using this information, field crews can reroute electricity and restore power -- in some cases remotely -- within minutes. In the past, Trent said, restoring power often took several hours.
On a whim last year, I bought an Ledtronic 9-led 4500K Incand White bulb at a fire sale at my local alternative energy shop. It uses approximately 0.6-1.2W of power, and produces light equivilant to a 15W incandescent bulb.
But that said, it's sitting here on my desk, not in a socket. Why? When you turn it on, the light flickers and whines (my guess is it's about a 60-hz flicker/whine, like an old TV); and I have not found a good place to put such a dim bulb (perhaps when I install my outdoor lights or build the shed in the back).
But this is an early generation bulb, so I expect the flickering to go away with a later generation.
Ok, here's a question for you geology geeks. What makes a planet core hot?
I've heard some people say it's heat caused by friction resulting from gravitational pressure (I think this is what they taught me in school), but I've had several Geology Doctorates say that the heat actually results from radioactive decay (Similar to radioactive decay in some granite).
Spammers violate my right to privacy by making it next to impossible to block their spam.
I agree with you on one point, I would prefer AOL do something other then blocking en-masse, such as empowering their users with decent filters on the client end (which can be disabled, or perhaps disabled by default).
But it's AOL's private service, and they have a right to determine what happens on their servers. Don't like it? Don't use their service. And don't shop in shopping malls where people can't wear certain T-shirts.
But if theirs one thing that pisses me off, it's when someone equates a minor offense with Nazi's slaughtering innocents.
My head is caught in a time warp to back when I did Tech Support at an ISP!
God, all those hours spent trying to help Mac users (with NO Internet Config) to hook up their modem, dial into an ISP, and get their IP address. Internet Config was a godsend.
If I ever run into Quinn, I'll buy him a whole pitcher of beer!
Quit it with the anti-California rhetoric already.
The majority of US states regulate their geologists (Washington isn't on this list, but Washington hardly regulates anything).
Do any states register geologists?
Yes. Twenty-six states now have registration or certification laws: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming. Puerto Rico also has passed a registration law.
California has more geologic activity in it's little pinky then most states have in their whole territory. Regulation and strict building standards is why over 30-million Californians can survive in Earthquake, flood & landslide country. The potential for fraud is enormous. As a homeowner, I'm glad for the regulation.
In 1989, a 7.1 earthquake in the SF Bay Area killed 62 people.
By contrast, in 1999 a 7.4 earthquake hit Turkey, killing over 30,000 people. Turkey has regulation, but doesn't enforce it.
Yes, their are many factors involved in these two numbers, but regulation saved many lives in 1989.
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A postscript attachment? Are you kidding?
You obviously haven't been in the lob market lately.
McDonald's is also a great place for networking. Many marketing directors for former dotcoms now with "Several years experience in all facets of counter communication"
I'm pretty sure the HR Manager at the White House doesn't know what they are doing.
Not only have they cancelled the internship program, they've lowered the standards for the rest of the offices also.
Job Title: President
Required qualifications:
- 10 years or three terms experience running a large nation.
Tried that. They noticed, actually.
With a resume, I want the formatting exactly as I set it. This is really difficult with different products, and they all use Windows, goshdarnit.
Yes, but there is still some Santa Cruz left. My friend who grew up in Santa Cruz still works there (at Caldera).
You've got yourself an endless loop.
HEYYYY! We're talking about telemarkteters here, if they get stuck in an endless loop, it's great for us!
Don't help them out man!
I'm more concerned with the charity loophole. The group "Lighthouse Credit Foundation" was busted by NY last year for calling people with automated messages (I average 3 calls a month from them myself) and no way to get off their lists. They claim they're exempt because they're a so-called charity offering debt relief.
Agreed.
If you'll listen to these messages, almost all of them say "non-profit" somewhere in the message, which apparently allows them to call.
A few months ago, I was receiving 1-2 calls per month from Lighthouse Credit Foundation. They included an 800 number. I called the 800 number, asked them to put me on their do-not-call list. Since then, I have not received a single phone call from them.
However, I do get one or more 'nonprofit credit counseling" phone calls ever since I made that call. Suspicious.
There have been a quite a few stories lately of governments cutting budgets and seriously examining the use of Linux in their offices. I'm getting the strong impression that the majority of government desktops will become Linux desktops. Is this true?
There is a big difference between "examining" and "implementation".
Governments, like most large institutions, are slow to change. Changing from Windows to Linux desktops costs money. Many State and City governments in the US are in the midst of their worst budget crisis' in 20-40 years. Now is when the freeze spending, lay off workers, and cancel research. They're not just going to change willy-nilly.
I am actually talking to people who work for several cities in the San Francisco Bay Area about using Gnome or KDE for their desktops (I'm probing out of curiosity, and I want to see what's planned for 2 years down the line).
Their additude about switching desktops is usually something like "Sure, Linux could be great, but are you INSANE? We'll save $x00 tops, but it will cost nearly that much to install the new software, train everyone to use it, and then fix the bugs."
As of right now, how many US state governments and Canadian provincial governments -do not- use Linux for their work stations?
None? We occasionally see small cities switching to Linux, but I doubt that there are any State governments who use Linux Desktops on a systemwide level.
Look, I love the Linux desktop. I use Gnome almost on a daily basis, but I still need to use Windows to run MS Office so that I can send my resume to people who request MS Word format. If I send it using any other format (including OpenOffice's MS Word format), I get complaints on the other side like "The formatting is all screwey".
It is my understanding that, given enough time, tidal forces would lock all binary systems so they presented the same faces to one another.
Interesting to note that most Moons in the solar system are locked to always show the same face.
We always see the same side of the moon, regardless of the time or date.
Ah, well, this IS Santa Cruz. I lived in Santa Cruz for 4 years during college. Great place. Rediculous lawsuits are part of the character!
While I was at the University, some nutcase brought a $1 Trillion lawsuit against UC Santa Cruz for screwing up his brain with government mind probes.
He lost, quickly, but oh how I feel sorry for the clerk that had to deal with that one.
Smart dust? Tracking chips for all products, and then humans-the "little kid wandering more than 50 feet away from mommy"?
Well, there are non-dark uses for these technologies also. The UC Berkeley physical plant enginners are using smart dust technology to automate large parts of their electcial grid. I'm friends with one of the head engineers there, and he's estactic by the amount of work saved by these things. Tasks that used to take hours can now take minutes.
Here's one example:
Durng a power outage, for example, engineers can pull up the campus's power grid on one of six computer monitors at the control center, zoom in on the problem area, then click on it to view the electrical drawings for that spot. Using this information, field crews can reroute electricity and restore power -- in some cases remotely -- within minutes. In the past, Trent said, restoring power often took several hours.
On a whim last year
Correction: It was late 2001. This was my part of the President's "Go out and buy stuff to save the economy" plan.
On a whim last year, I bought an Ledtronic 9-led 4500K Incand White bulb
at a fire sale at my local alternative energy shop. It uses
approximately 0.6-1.2W of power, and produces light equivilant to a 15W
incandescent bulb.
But that said, it's sitting here on my desk, not in a socket. Why? When you turn it on, the light flickers and
whines (my guess is it's about a 60-hz flicker/whine, like an old TV);
and I have not found a good place to put such a dim bulb (perhaps when
I install my outdoor lights or build the shed in the back).
But this is an early generation bulb, so I expect the flickering to go away with a later generation.
Ok, here's a question for you geology geeks. What makes a planet core hot?
I've heard some people say it's heat caused by friction resulting from gravitational pressure (I think this is what they taught me in school), but I've had several Geology Doctorates say that the heat actually results from radioactive decay (Similar to radioactive decay in some granite).
So, which is it? Help my geoneophyteness!
Sorry, you didn't swing the CLUE bat hard enough.
I geet it now. Hoorible at speling, I am.
Loose money. Spending it all around, wildly, without control.
Like loose slots in Vegas.
If AOL blocks spam, the spammer looses money.
Do I care if the spammer looses money? No, because if the spammer gets through, AOL and the recipient loose money (time, computer resources).
Spammers violate my right to privacy by making it next to impossible to block their spam.
I agree with you on one point, I would prefer AOL do something other then blocking en-masse, such as empowering their users with decent filters on the client end (which can be disabled, or perhaps disabled by default).
But it's AOL's private service, and they have a right to determine what happens on their servers. Don't like it? Don't use their service. And don't shop in shopping malls where people can't wear certain T-shirts.
But if theirs one thing that pisses me off, it's when someone equates a minor offense with Nazi's slaughtering innocents.
Don't exaggerate.
When you compare spam-blocking with Nazi atrocities, you're belittling the horror that Nazi victims experienced.
Many of those Communists, Jews, trade unionists, Catholics were often killed in all manner of horrific ways.
By contrast, AOL isn't killing anybody. If AOL blocks spam, somebody looses some money, and an AOL user gains some time, money & sanity.
There can be no fair comparison of these two activities.
It's just a friggin' ftp program (and one I've never heard of, at that), and it's not exactly ground breaking.
You never heard of it because you were still in diapers.
It was very ground breaking, back in 1994, back when the web was just a small part of the internet. Clean, simple interfaces; oh how I miss them.
Anarchie? Internet Config? Whoa! WHOA! Time warp!
My head is caught in a time warp to back when I did Tech Support at an ISP!
God, all those hours spent trying to help Mac users (with NO Internet Config) to hook up their modem, dial into an ISP, and get their IP address. Internet Config was a godsend.
If I ever run into Quinn, I'll buy him a whole pitcher of beer!
Creative .sigs are a sign of too much time on one's hands.
Or we've been on the internet for way tooo long.
I'm afraid of Apple lawsuits.
As a result, I've just been leaving my trash on the floor, just outside the garbage can.
If it has so little merit, then why is it popular?
Quit it with the anti-California rhetoric already.
The majority of US states regulate their geologists (Washington isn't on this list, but Washington hardly regulates anything).
Do any states register geologists?
Yes. Twenty-six states now have registration or certification laws: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming. Puerto Rico also has passed a registration law.
California has more geologic activity in it's little pinky then most states have in their whole territory. Regulation and strict building standards is why over 30-million Californians can survive in Earthquake, flood & landslide country. The potential for fraud is enormous. As a homeowner, I'm glad for the regulation.
In 1989, a 7.1 earthquake in the SF Bay Area killed 62 people.
By contrast, in 1999 a 7.4 earthquake hit Turkey, killing over 30,000 people. Turkey has regulation, but doesn't enforce it.
Yes, their are many factors involved in these two numbers, but regulation saved many lives in 1989.