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The messages in the Spam folder date back to July, 99% of the inbox is uncaught spam, and it's using up my entire disk allocation. The problem is that there's no way to empty all of the spam at once, I have to sit there deleting 100 at a time. I'm not about to cycle through some 2,000 pages of spam just to clean that puppy out.
The interface says "Note: Spam messages more than 30 days old will be automatically deleted," but it's not happening. Gmail is unusable for me until they let you mass-delete the spam.
The FIRST store chain to move loss prevention to the exit door and rummage through their customer's stuff.
Best Buy is evil. I do not and will not shop there. However, I believe you're wrong on this point. Sam's Club (the Wal-Mart equivalent of Costco) had a "check the receipt against the contents of the cart" policy years before I'd ever heard of Best Buy. For the record I don't shop at Sam's anymore, either, I go to Costco.
Costco's CEO was on TV awhile ago explaining his company's success, and also explaining how he only makes about $300K a year, compared to other Fortune 500 companies whose CEOs are making tens of millions a year, he is one of the lowest paid CEOs, and he's proud of it. For years the board has been voting million dollar bonuses to him, and he turns them down year after year, because he believes the real employees deserve the raises and the customers deserve good prices.
That's the kind of place I want to shop. Fuck Best Buy, fuck Wal-Mart, and fuck Sam's.
Ok so they hate me. Big fucking deal what are they going to do - refuse to sell me something? Act rude? Be hard to track down a sales rep? Not take my money?
Another datapoint to consider with regards to the John Titor conspiracy. In Titor's writings, he says that the impending civil war will be fought between rural and country, that is, people who live in densely populated urban areas will be set against those who live in sparsely populated backcountry.
There have been many criticisms lately regarding the electoral college. Many people are calling for it to be removed in favor of a "popular vote" system. The obvious counter-argument is that, were this to happen, presidential candidates would completely ignore those in rural areas (where there weren't enough votes to matter), in favor of campaigning in big cities (where the majority of the votes lie).
The problem with this counter-argument is that there is already disparity between densely and sparsely populated states, in terms of the electoral system. Rural "heartland" states in the bread basket typically have fewer electoral votes than urban-dominated states like California. At the same time, many voters from, say, New York are upset that voters from, say, Illinois have their votes counted "disproportionately," due to the electoral college.
Electoral college reform is, to me, the only viable scenario which would pit rural America vs. urban America to an extent in which a civil war between these two populations would potentially arise. During tonight's election coverage, Tom Brokaw commented that regardless of who wins, we will probably be re-evaluating the electoral college in the near future.
BTW, Titor also predicts China getting into manned space missions. Pretty crazy that a story about China planning a 5-day mission shows up on election day, of all days.
Go buy some guns, and learn how to use them. The end is nigh.
I should point out that many of the proxies in the database are outside of the US themselves, and may not let you through to georgewbush.com. Try this one,
198.26.118.104:80
Fair warning: This proxy is operated by disa.mil. Do not use for sensitive browsing. Loading up GWB's homepage through it should be just fine.
BTW: oddly enough, there are 20 or so proxy servers similar to the above which we've left in the DB, which appear to be owned by the US military (our policy is to exclude only if a host has proper RDNS for.gov/.mil/.us/.int, and these do not). They have consistently been the fastest and most reliable proxies - at least according to our tests - over the past year or so, and the duration of their presence leads me to believe that they are open intentionally. I imagine your traffic is likely to be logged, but for something as mundane as visiting GWB's homepage, the US military is probably the best proxy around!
Even though I'm on Stern's side here, the comparison you draw isn't really valid. FOX News Channel is cable TV, CBS is broadcast. Cable doesn't fall under the FCC's jurisdiction (they haven't usurped this power yet, though I imagine they'll try sooner than later). FOX News or MSNBC could run hardcore porn for half an hour, if they so chose, and not get a fine; they aren't using the public airwaves.
I really wish that some of the cable stations - and not just the premium channels like Showtime or HBO - would step up to the plate. When Jon Stewart says "fuck" on The Daily Show, there's no reason they should be bleeping it out. Someone who is not a) paying for cable and b) intentionally tuning into that program is not going to hear it. Most of the cable channels are adhering to safe-harbor-ish system when they don't have to.
Check Pricewatch, I've repeatedly bought 100-foot lengths of Cat5e for less than $15, including shipping. No reason to spend $1/foot on cable, unless it's the company's money:)
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On their recent tour, the Pixies offered CDs of the show recorded and mized live to fans walking out the door.
A minor nit to pick: most likely it was ClearChannel, not the Pixies, offering (and profiting from) the CD. IIRC, ClearChannel even went so far as to patent the process of recording a concert and selling the CDs immediately afterwards. Of course I'm not saying you shouldn't buy the CD if you liked the show!
How exactly do you pronounce "Vauxhall" and "Citroen?" From my Merkin point of view, I'd imagine that Vauxhall is something like "Vox-hall," or maybe "Voh-all" if it were a French thing. Citroen, in my mind, is pronounced "Sit-roan," but I get the feeling that isn't correct.
This is a serious question. Am I even close with the pronunciation?
Drivers, 75 years old and more, are more dangerous than every other group except teenagers (who also shouldn't be allowed to drive so young).
Damn straight! Teenagers should have to be, uhm, apprentices to 20-somethings who have established driving records, in exchange for chauffering them here and there. I propose some legislation, teens can't drive until they've had 100 hours of experience as an observant passenger. We can call this probationary period "road-head hours" for short.
As for people 75 and older, well, they can just get a freakin' Hoveround. If it can go to the Grand Canyon, it can go to the Wal-Mart.
The war on drugs worked because well-to-do soccer moms were and are scared that their Harvard-bound princesses will end up giving blowjobs for coke, or that their sons will end up slanging yayo in the hood.
Meanwhile, people like me are getting blowjobs from Harvard princesses and buying yayo at record low rates from their brothers. Vive le guerre!
Damn straight. I mean, everyone has a job that they can walk or bike to, right? If I want to go meet my friends downtown to see a concert or a ballgame, I can just pay $50 to hire a cab, right? My kids' private school provides them with a bus, so that I don't have to drive them, right? And the local grocery store delivers everything I need straight to my front door, right?
Bull fucking shit that drivers' licenses are not compulsory. At least not if you expect to be a productive adult in the USA.
You do realize that to be a "Nielson" household you have to volunteer.
Not recently. I don't know how it worked in the past, but I have participated twice over the last three years. Both times, I received a packet in the mail. The packet contained five $1 bills, an instruction pamphlet, and a log book. In the log book, you record what you watch and when, then after the time period is up (I believe it's 1 week) you return it to them in a postage paid envelope.
Pretty low-tech process, actually; I was surprised that this is how they compile their ratings. I could have written down anything in the log book, it wouldn't necessarily have reflected what I actually was watching on TV. I was also surprised that they routinely send cash through the mail, certainly carriers know what's inside that envelope, I wonder how many of them never make it to their true destination, and I wonder how many letter carriers are sending in tens of Nielsen booklets a month*, skewing the results?
*Not accusing letter carriers of any misdeeds, but I've been in the mail cartage industry since I was 14 and I know a thing or two about how it works...
However, I kinda miss the "social experience" of going to the movies.
Yeah, I know what you mean. That whole "cute high school girls sitting around you in every direction" thing really makes going to the movies worth it! Too bad we can't get that with the home theater.
You missed the fact that it's a parody of the Swift Boat Veterans For Truth campaign.
Gah, you're right. The "foot" icon never registered, I just clicked through to the Politics section and saw the story. Since the Politics topic has been entirely serious since its inauguration here - I think this story is the first presence of "it's funny, laugh" in the section - I figured this story was describing yet another baseless 527 attack on Kerry.
Sorry, it's 5AM and I've been up since 9AM yesterday, with a dental appointment in the meantime. Disregard grandparent rant. Scaling and root planing has a way of affecting one's sense of humor, until it stops hurting!
Granted, I'm not in one of the swing states, I live in Tennessee... So I have yet to see a Kerry ad on TV, all I've seen are Bush commercials. However, I've tried to keep up with both campaigns online, not only at their own websites but in terms of political discussion elsewhere. I don't recall hearing that Kerry ever claimed to be a pro football player, or even an expert about football. What did I miss?
In November, I'm going to be voting for my choice of presidential candidates (among a number of local offices as well). And, in the immortal words of Lee Elia for you sports fans, "I'll tell you one fucking thing" - whether or not the candidates are good at sports, know about sports, or even like sports has absolutely zero effect on who I'm going to vote for. Please tell me that the American electorate has not devolved into a sports contest.
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The messages in the Spam folder date back to July, 99% of the inbox is uncaught spam, and it's using up my entire disk allocation. The problem is that there's no way to empty all of the spam at once, I have to sit there deleting 100 at a time. I'm not about to cycle through some 2,000 pages of spam just to clean that puppy out.
The interface says "Note: Spam messages more than 30 days old will be automatically deleted," but it's not happening. Gmail is unusable for me until they let you mass-delete the spam.
Costco's CEO was on TV awhile ago explaining his company's success, and also explaining how he only makes about $300K a year, compared to other Fortune 500 companies whose CEOs are making tens of millions a year, he is one of the lowest paid CEOs, and he's proud of it. For years the board has been voting million dollar bonuses to him, and he turns them down year after year, because he believes the real employees deserve the raises and the customers deserve good prices.
That's the kind of place I want to shop. Fuck Best Buy, fuck Wal-Mart, and fuck Sam's.
Another datapoint to consider with regards to the John Titor conspiracy. In Titor's writings, he says that the impending civil war will be fought between rural and country, that is, people who live in densely populated urban areas will be set against those who live in sparsely populated backcountry.
There have been many criticisms lately regarding the electoral college. Many people are calling for it to be removed in favor of a "popular vote" system. The obvious counter-argument is that, were this to happen, presidential candidates would completely ignore those in rural areas (where there weren't enough votes to matter), in favor of campaigning in big cities (where the majority of the votes lie).
The problem with this counter-argument is that there is already disparity between densely and sparsely populated states, in terms of the electoral system. Rural "heartland" states in the bread basket typically have fewer electoral votes than urban-dominated states like California. At the same time, many voters from, say, New York are upset that voters from, say, Illinois have their votes counted "disproportionately," due to the electoral college.
Electoral college reform is, to me, the only viable scenario which would pit rural America vs. urban America to an extent in which a civil war between these two populations would potentially arise. During tonight's election coverage, Tom Brokaw commented that regardless of who wins, we will probably be re-evaluating the electoral college in the near future.
BTW, Titor also predicts China getting into manned space missions. Pretty crazy that a story about China planning a 5-day mission shows up on election day, of all days.
Go buy some guns, and learn how to use them. The end is nigh.
According to the site, pollstats.com is only going to report data from South Dakota. Useful if you live there, but perhaps not otherwise.
Hey, thanks!
.gov/.mil/.us/.int, and these do not). They have consistently been the fastest and most reliable proxies - at least according to our tests - over the past year or so, and the duration of their presence leads me to believe that they are open intentionally. I imagine your traffic is likely to be logged, but for something as mundane as visiting GWB's homepage, the US military is probably the best proxy around!
I should point out that many of the proxies in the database are outside of the US themselves, and may not let you through to georgewbush.com. Try this one,
198.26.118.104:80
Fair warning: This proxy is operated by disa.mil. Do not use for sensitive browsing. Loading up GWB's homepage through it should be just fine.
BTW: oddly enough, there are 20 or so proxy servers similar to the above which we've left in the DB, which appear to be owned by the US military (our policy is to exclude only if a host has proper RDNS for
Even though I'm on Stern's side here, the comparison you draw isn't really valid. FOX News Channel is cable TV, CBS is broadcast. Cable doesn't fall under the FCC's jurisdiction (they haven't usurped this power yet, though I imagine they'll try sooner than later). FOX News or MSNBC could run hardcore porn for half an hour, if they so chose, and not get a fine; they aren't using the public airwaves.
I really wish that some of the cable stations - and not just the premium channels like Showtime or HBO - would step up to the plate. When Jon Stewart says "fuck" on The Daily Show, there's no reason they should be bleeping it out. Someone who is not a) paying for cable and b) intentionally tuning into that program is not going to hear it. Most of the cable channels are adhering to safe-harbor-ish system when they don't have to.
Check Pricewatch, I've repeatedly bought 100-foot lengths of Cat5e for less than $15, including shipping. No reason to spend $1/foot on cable, unless it's the company's money :)
How exactly do you pronounce "Vauxhall" and "Citroen?" From my Merkin point of view, I'd imagine that Vauxhall is something like "Vox-hall," or maybe "Voh-all" if it were a French thing. Citroen, in my mind, is pronounced "Sit-roan," but I get the feeling that isn't correct.
This is a serious question. Am I even close with the pronunciation?
As for people 75 and older, well, they can just get a freakin' Hoveround. If it can go to the Grand Canyon, it can go to the Wal-Mart.
Oh, go hug a root. :)
Bull fucking shit that drivers' licenses are not compulsory. At least not if you expect to be a productive adult in the USA.
Pretty low-tech process, actually; I was surprised that this is how they compile their ratings. I could have written down anything in the log book, it wouldn't necessarily have reflected what I actually was watching on TV. I was also surprised that they routinely send cash through the mail, certainly carriers know what's inside that envelope, I wonder how many of them never make it to their true destination, and I wonder how many letter carriers are sending in tens of Nielsen booklets a month*, skewing the results?
*Not accusing letter carriers of any misdeeds, but I've been in the mail cartage industry since I was 14 and I know a thing or two about how it works...
..ahh, why bother.
Sorry, it's 5AM and I've been up since 9AM yesterday, with a dental appointment in the meantime. Disregard grandparent rant. Scaling and root planing has a way of affecting one's sense of humor, until it stops hurting!
Did I miss something?
Granted, I'm not in one of the swing states, I live in Tennessee... So I have yet to see a Kerry ad on TV, all I've seen are Bush commercials. However, I've tried to keep up with both campaigns online, not only at their own websites but in terms of political discussion elsewhere. I don't recall hearing that Kerry ever claimed to be a pro football player, or even an expert about football. What did I miss?
In November, I'm going to be voting for my choice of presidential candidates (among a number of local offices as well). And, in the immortal words of Lee Elia for you sports fans, "I'll tell you one fucking thing" - whether or not the candidates are good at sports, know about sports, or even like sports has absolutely zero effect on who I'm going to vote for. Please tell me that the American electorate has not devolved into a sports contest.