The local economic club had her as a speaker last year. In this staunch Rep corner of Michigan it's also had the likes of W and his wife in the past few years. I don't know what she got paid for speaking but it could have been more than 1/2 a term of gov paid.
There's a whole DIY field of solar cooker makers. With a simple box and a few feet of foil lined cardboard panels it's easy enough to do a slow roast meal, in a Michigan winter sunny day. For just a few bucks of material it's a fun build.
I have the vague recollection of a sci fi short story along that line, but can't remember the title or author. The concept was that FTL worked but it actually made things go further apart, the more you used it, the worse things got. An anti-FTL ship tried to convince an FTL ship to slow down. I recall it was a decent short.
Sen Edward Kennedy Although it looks like I misremembered and was way off on her profession, she had been a secretary and aide to his brother. Crash your car and someone drowns, leave the scene, and you get a commuted sentence? Now that takes some pull!
Shame the new guy decided to "look to the future, not the past" and didn't want to even have a commission to look at any wrongdoings. If you are politically connected you can get away with almost anything, both of the main parties are just as bad. Murder (Kennedy and the dead hooker), shooting a guy in the face and not reporting it for a day (Cheney), and all the other things that are so obviously wrong that late night talk shows use them as punchlines.
I'd like to see actual punishment for crimes, and not just the top dogs. Anyone who didn't do their job while working for the gov should at least be named so those idiots don't keep screwing up. Whoever was in charge overseeing Madoff at the SEC should be canned and publicly named, same with inspectors for the BP oil spill, etc. Instead we, at best, get some long winded hearing, people quietly quit, and it's back to the same payola.
For that few of people almost anything would work. Email isn't processor intensive, spam filtering can be a little but it isn't that much. Just need a lot of disk space per user. For personal email I use a low wattage atom processor, for a business I'd go with any raid system for a little redundancy. Software wise postfix (SMTP), dovecot (POP/IMAP) and amavisd for some spam filtering is a good fit. Plenty of walkthroughs on how to do it if you've never used the software, FreeBSD has these all as default ports to make it easier. I've used this general setup for a regional ISP and it's solid. It doesn't take much for admin and maintenance either. There are optional installs for web interface to control spam filters through like a squirrelmail webmail and other tweaks but those aren't bad.
If the business already has an IT person comfortable with BSD/linux it's a viable option. If not google apps can save a lot of headaches for the cost, or other alternatives like this. Also it depends on if shared calendaring and outlook integration is already part of the business. SMTP Email is easy but if the place is used to outlook calendaring that's another matter.
How is 72% still teaching superstition any better? I went to a catholic school and they taught evolution as fact, of course there was a religion class but biology was science.
I don't know whether to be amused or sad by the addons the telcos try to toss in on Android. My Sprint phone is offering to give me voicemail to text for only 2.99 more a month. This ad is displayed on every voicemail I listen to. I'm glad I use google voice for that.
If the baby bells that took hundreds of billions from the government and never delivered, then rolled out cell service, decide to hand that money back, it may entice a free market competitor. But you know that's never going to happen.
Or the type that has motion capture and changes the game accordingly. Those you have to squat or duck down to reload, while the guy next to you would be weaving around. You could shoot your eye out like that.
They were able to use further loans from the gov to pay back the TARP funds. I know GM did this, not sure how widespread it is among TARP recipients. So they went around and got another loan, paid back the original loan, and everyone's happy.
As to G-S, give me access to 0% loans direct from the fed and I'm sure I can make money too. Like oh, use these no interest loans to buy government bonds that return 5%.. That's right, we give these bastards money at no charge so they can turn around, buy government debt, that we as taxpayers pay back at a 5% charge. Sweet! No wonder so many NY Stock exchange board members jumped onto G-S when they became a bank specifically to allow them to get bailout money.
Do this scam enough and the facebook money is nothing.
It was a decent King book, good characters, some interesting mishaps (Suspension of disbelief, but it's a king book). But then the ending was a WTF moment. It was like King had no idea where to end it so he pulled something like BSG did to end their series. Had no idea where it was going so just wrapped it up quick. He made this big deal throughout the book about the dome hitting exactly on the border of the town, a border that is a manmade construct on a map, but then well... he never went anywhere with THAT or why it happened to hit there.
The simpsons movie was better, the simpsons episode where they mock the King book and their own movie was funny too.
Google does seem to take their sweet time on fixing issues. My personal annoyance is the bluetooth discoverability being hardcoded to 120 seconds max. It's been a medium bug for a year now without even a nod from someone if it's even on their radar for future fixes. I really like android. Now that it's the most used phone OS maybe it should get some more support.
Unless those government representatives worked under Bush. Then they used the republican email servers. It was upwards of 22 million missing emails. It made a bit of a news splash but we'll never hear of a single head roll. Not even a slap on the wrist. It's for this reason I support Wikileaks, the government doesn't even follow their own damn laws.
Great writeup. When the country goes from thousands of ISPs back to only the ILECs (Baby bells) it's not market consolidation, it's the baby bells acting like the monopoly they are. It got really bad when Bush took office and put Powell's kid in charge of the FCC. All the good things of the '96 telco reform were removed and big telco won the internet access war. We have all suffered since.
Since I doubt we'll ever see a penny of the 300 billion we've already spent for nationwide broadband, or the ILECs ever getting punished, my only hope is new tech. Maybe aircraft that can loiter indefinitely, or blimps, can provide the last mile and Google's dark fiber is the savior. Maybe someone figures out quantum entangled routers. Any answer that leads to the baby bells going belly up would make my year.
I still have Portmaster 3s and a Portmaster 4 sitting in back, a DS3 trunk of modem cards in one box - ooh ahh! Those were the days.
Small markets of any type, like farmer or flea markets, have a real problem with accepting anything but cash. I did some weekend business at a regional flea market - 40K people a weekend through it - and I was the only merchant accepting Credit cards. I disliked it too - eating 3% of all CC sales. It must be near impossible for non brick and mortar types to get merchant accounts.
This past week Officer Keith Kirk, during the middle of the day caught and arrested a subject standing in an alley behind a local business, with residential housing on the other side of the alley, holding his laptop in one hand and self-gratifying himself in public. The person had connected his computer to the internet through the connection that the local business he was standing next to offers to their customers. This subject has been charged with multiple felony charges and his computer has been seized
How do you even begin to compete against a monopoly. Since the '96 telco reforms were rolled back you could string up all the wire you want and the monopolies wouldn't have to interconnect.
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The local economic club had her as a speaker last year. In this staunch Rep corner of Michigan it's also had the likes of W and his wife in the past few years. I don't know what she got paid for speaking but it could have been more than 1/2 a term of gov paid.
There's a whole DIY field of solar cooker makers. With a simple box and a few feet of foil lined cardboard panels it's easy enough to do a slow roast meal, in a Michigan winter sunny day. For just a few bucks of material it's a fun build.
I have the vague recollection of a sci fi short story along that line, but can't remember the title or author. The concept was that FTL worked but it actually made things go further apart, the more you used it, the worse things got. An anti-FTL ship tried to convince an FTL ship to slow down. I recall it was a decent short.
Sen Edward Kennedy Although it looks like I misremembered and was way off on her profession, she had been a secretary and aide to his brother. Crash your car and someone drowns, leave the scene, and you get a commuted sentence? Now that takes some pull!
Shame the new guy decided to "look to the future, not the past" and didn't want to even have a commission to look at any wrongdoings. If you are politically connected you can get away with almost anything, both of the main parties are just as bad. Murder (Kennedy and the dead hooker), shooting a guy in the face and not reporting it for a day (Cheney), and all the other things that are so obviously wrong that late night talk shows use them as punchlines.
I'd like to see actual punishment for crimes, and not just the top dogs. Anyone who didn't do their job while working for the gov should at least be named so those idiots don't keep screwing up. Whoever was in charge overseeing Madoff at the SEC should be canned and publicly named, same with inspectors for the BP oil spill, etc. Instead we, at best, get some long winded hearing, people quietly quit, and it's back to the same payola.
For that few of people almost anything would work. Email isn't processor intensive, spam filtering can be a little but it isn't that much. Just need a lot of disk space per user. For personal email I use a low wattage atom processor, for a business I'd go with any raid system for a little redundancy. Software wise postfix (SMTP), dovecot (POP/IMAP) and amavisd for some spam filtering is a good fit. Plenty of walkthroughs on how to do it if you've never used the software, FreeBSD has these all as default ports to make it easier. I've used this general setup for a regional ISP and it's solid. It doesn't take much for admin and maintenance either. There are optional installs for web interface to control spam filters through like a squirrelmail webmail and other tweaks but those aren't bad.
If the business already has an IT person comfortable with BSD/linux it's a viable option. If not google apps can save a lot of headaches for the cost, or other alternatives like this. Also it depends on if shared calendaring and outlook integration is already part of the business. SMTP Email is easy but if the place is used to outlook calendaring that's another matter.
I'm surprised they don't call this something totally opposite from what it is. Like the Patriot Act.
How is 72% still teaching superstition any better? I went to a catholic school and they taught evolution as fact, of course there was a religion class but biology was science.
Don't cereal whores lead to cereal rapists?
They're children unless they're being prosecuted, then they're usually adults. I don't get that double standard.
I don't know whether to be amused or sad by the addons the telcos try to toss in on Android. My Sprint phone is offering to give me voicemail to text for only 2.99 more a month. This ad is displayed on every voicemail I listen to. I'm glad I use google voice for that.
If the baby bells that took hundreds of billions from the government and never delivered, then rolled out cell service, decide to hand that money back, it may entice a free market competitor. But you know that's never going to happen.
Or the type that has motion capture and changes the game accordingly. Those you have to squat or duck down to reload, while the guy next to you would be weaving around. You could shoot your eye out like that.
They were able to use further loans from the gov to pay back the TARP funds. I know GM did this, not sure how widespread it is among TARP recipients. So they went around and got another loan, paid back the original loan, and everyone's happy.
As to G-S, give me access to 0% loans direct from the fed and I'm sure I can make money too. Like oh, use these no interest loans to buy government bonds that return 5%.. That's right, we give these bastards money at no charge so they can turn around, buy government debt, that we as taxpayers pay back at a 5% charge. Sweet! No wonder so many NY Stock exchange board members jumped onto G-S when they became a bank specifically to allow them to get bailout money.
Do this scam enough and the facebook money is nothing.
Too bad it was canceled, we'll just never know! Either that or this is the strangest grassroots effort to renew a show I've heard about.
It was a decent King book, good characters, some interesting mishaps (Suspension of disbelief, but it's a king book). But then the ending was a WTF moment. It was like King had no idea where to end it so he pulled something like BSG did to end their series. Had no idea where it was going so just wrapped it up quick. He made this big deal throughout the book about the dome hitting exactly on the border of the town, a border that is a manmade construct on a map, but then well... he never went anywhere with THAT or why it happened to hit there.
The simpsons movie was better, the simpsons episode where they mock the King book and their own movie was funny too.
Google does seem to take their sweet time on fixing issues. My personal annoyance is the bluetooth discoverability being hardcoded to 120 seconds max. It's been a medium bug for a year now without even a nod from someone if it's even on their radar for future fixes. I really like android. Now that it's the most used phone OS maybe it should get some more support.
Unless those government representatives worked under Bush. Then they used the republican email servers. It was upwards of 22 million missing emails. It made a bit of a news splash but we'll never hear of a single head roll. Not even a slap on the wrist. It's for this reason I support Wikileaks, the government doesn't even follow their own damn laws.
Great writeup. When the country goes from thousands of ISPs back to only the ILECs (Baby bells) it's not market consolidation, it's the baby bells acting like the monopoly they are. It got really bad when Bush took office and put Powell's kid in charge of the FCC. All the good things of the '96 telco reform were removed and big telco won the internet access war. We have all suffered since.
Since I doubt we'll ever see a penny of the 300 billion we've already spent for nationwide broadband, or the ILECs ever getting punished, my only hope is new tech. Maybe aircraft that can loiter indefinitely, or blimps, can provide the last mile and Google's dark fiber is the savior. Maybe someone figures out quantum entangled routers. Any answer that leads to the baby bells going belly up would make my year.
I still have Portmaster 3s and a Portmaster 4 sitting in back, a DS3 trunk of modem cards in one box - ooh ahh! Those were the days.
Small markets of any type, like farmer or flea markets, have a real problem with accepting anything but cash. I did some weekend business at a regional flea market - 40K people a weekend through it - and I was the only merchant accepting Credit cards. I disliked it too - eating 3% of all CC sales. It must be near impossible for non brick and mortar types to get merchant accounts.
Sesame street has a toy with a steering wheel and various sounds. One is Cookie Monster saying "Me Drive car!".
With that fact in hand
This last week stealing wifi was front page news.
This past week Officer Keith Kirk, during the middle of the day caught and arrested a subject standing in an alley behind a local business, with residential housing on the other side of the alley, holding his laptop in one hand and self-gratifying himself in public. The person had connected his computer to the internet through the connection that the local business he was standing next to offers to their customers. This subject has been charged with multiple felony charges and his computer has been seized
How do you even begin to compete against a monopoly. Since the '96 telco reforms were rolled back you could string up all the wire you want and the monopolies wouldn't have to interconnect.
I just want to know how CLU sent a page.
I'm more worried about it breaking our crystal sphere. (Hugo award short story '85)