All you would need is a legit FEIN, and real or forged Articles of Formation. Maybe an operating agreement. Open a bank account and VOILA!"
Not anymore. I sometimes set up LLC's and corporations, and now you need photo ID and other documents to open a bank account. I will admit that there are workarounds, however.
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...Than to live on your knees. I don't know who said it, but it is part of my personal philosophy of life.
I life my life for myself. Many will think that a selfish attitude, and they are right. But it is no more selfish than those who would tell me how to live my life, for example by telling me to not climb mountains, get shot at, or sleep alone and unprotected in Grizzly country. It is my life, and my choices. I believe that life is about choosing either to live, or merely exist. For me, living is seeking out experiences and challenges, and I'd rather die while living, even if it be fighting to save the life of someone else, rather than to die in a chair of an aneurism.
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Sex Sells
If it bleeds, it leads.
Think about it: even the Bible ends with fire, brimstone, and the Pocyclypse. Humans need conflict and challenge, and have the need to rubberneck at auto crashes, or gossip about the misfortunes of another. This goes back to our earliest days. Why? I don't have an answer to that, probably because my science is rocks, not biology or sociology. But I know that it is so, just as people stare at the fire (or the modern equivalent for most people-the TV).
Same way we power stuff when off the grid or the power goes down, and what hospitals and datacenters and lots of other places use: diesel powered gensets. Plus, if they did lose feed, they have a ton of advertising and rehashed 'content' to fill the space.
And sometimes they have a "clip show", like the time General Hammond was revealing the existence of the Stargate to some Earth representatives. That serves to both bring viewers up to date as well as make us sorry we missed something, yet you can come in any time, as a previous poster mentioned, and not be too lost.
I didn't discover it until maybe the 4th or 5th season, and now I shall get the DVD's to see what I missed as it started out. IMO it is one of the best sci-fi/comedy/action shows on TV, even better than many films. I especially loved the episode where they were spoofing their own show, in the interest of credible denialability. As a bonus, my girlfriend even loves the show.
I notice that whenever a government makes a tax or levy on something, bootleggers, smugglers, and others (like cops, lawyers, judges, et. al) profit. Other than ordinary citizen made criminals by laws and regulation, not a damn thing is changed.
I've lived in Alaska since I was just a pup, and one of the first things I learned from an old-timer was the use of cayenne pepper. I sprinkled it on my toes, and put it into capsules I bought at the 'health food store'. I won't get into how it works to increase blood flow, but it does the trick. Having been exposed to wind chills in excess of -150 below zero, I still have all my fingers and toes, although one time the plastic thingy came off my glasses and the steel from the frame froze a hole into the side of my nose. Unlike black pepper, cayenne is not an irritant, although if you get some on a sensitive area (like if you forget to wash your hands before you pee), you'll be wondering WTF?
" is as funny and entertaining as The Sims with a shotgun
I can't count the number of times I wanted to dispose of a particularly stupid Sim, and a shotgun would have done nicely, instead of drowning them. I only played the game because my GF at the time made me. Man, the things we do for, er um love, yeah. She got really angry when I finally got the naked women sims to kiss and stuff. Now, I got a new GF who likes games like GTA and naked girls in UT2003. WooHoo!
Anyone remember those? My cousin David Chance built some of those and wrote some cool books, way back, like "33 Challenging Computer Games for TRS-80, Apple and PET: David Chance."
When I read this I thought "where's the incentuve for anyone to come out"? Say I've already been paid for a job, and the the sum offered for the story is not even worthy of being considered a pittance, especially considering the potential ramifications of betraying my clients trust (we're going to kill your family first-then we'll decide what to do with you). And I don't need to brag, because I don't care what others think. Furthermore, the attention would hinder my progress. Not that I've ever broken any laws *cough cough*
I just don't trust Asscraft and Ronald Dumsfeld and the whole "Patriot Act" gestapo setup. Crime Pays, and They Know It.
"Does anyone else find it shocking that these stores are actually able to stay afloat?
Perhaps before I realized that Coke and others were selling tap water for prices higher than gasoline. Ok, I may be a little pissed that I didn't think of it, but still. I believe there will be money made by someone before people wake up.
Edward Teller, the Father of the H-Bomb, just died this September. From Wikipedia: "He also proposed many peaceful uses of nuclear technologies, including a project to carve out a harbor in Alaska by detonating a hydrogen bomb on the sea floor. While working for the Atomic Energy Commission in the late 1950s and 1960s, he proposed "Project Chariot", in which hydrogen bombs would be used to dig a harbor more than a mile long and half a mile wide to provide a deep-water harbor for coal fields near Point Hope. Various factors, including opposition from the Inupiat people living near Point Hope and the fact that the harbor would be ice-bound nine months of the year, doomed the project."
According to the article (yes I actually read it before posting, and yes I am new here): But despite piles of Pentagon cash, and years of testing, the Avrocar couldn't stay stable more than a few feet off the ground. The program was finally killed in 1965. An Avrocar test model can still be found in a National Air and Space Museum storage facility near Washington. A "working flying saucer"? I don't think so.
""Initially they were Dumpster diving (a few years ago), but now they've actually progressed into tearing open black garbage bags in cans that don't have lids," said Jessy Coltrane, the assistant area biologist for the Alaska Department of Fish and Game. "When moose start getting into garbage, they're almost worse than bears because they're pretty persistent about it."
I remember reading an article about bugs sweating gold: "Exactly what happened to cause Alaska's placer-building bugs to build up a gold molecule at a time isn't certain. Grossly oversimplified---and I certainly hope no chemist reads this---the metabolic products exuded by the bacteria interact with compounds in the environment virtually an electron at a time. So to speak, the bugs sweat solid gold. Others think the process may have had another purpose. British chemist Steven Mann speculates that the bacteria could be using "gold complexes...as terminal electron acceptors. If so, then this would be a novel form of energy transduction in anaerobic respiration"---that is, the gold buildup was an important part of the bacteria's life processes, not just a waste product like the crust of salt on an athlete's drying skin." Source
Having said all this, voice print ID avoids many of these pitfalls. It seems the most promising since no one can physically force you to speak your password, and if you die the data remains protected.
In the movie "Sneakers", the girl tricked the guy into saying his passphrase. Yes, I know it's just a movie, but I'm sure, in the intervening years, something better has come up.
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Here's part of another related story posted to that site: "Normally, only a fraction of our electorate bothers to vote, due to a combination of revulsion and indifference, and it shows. How did American politics come to such a sorry pass?
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Doing nothing is still worse than doing something. Getting into politics is like taking your seat in an airplane. The odds are that the person jammed in 2 inches away from you is someone you wouldn't let into your house unless you could train a gun on him. But does this deter you from flying? Of course not. Putting yourself in the proximity of the loathsome is the price you pay for traveling by air.
Look at it this way: American politics has remained essentially unchanged since our country's founding. It is an open sewer with ghastly objects floating in it, nameless horrors bobbing in its noisome currents. Yet if we did not dive in, what would happen?
Our plains would be transformed into endless fields of corporate-owned, genetically engineered crops with not a square foot of cover anywhere for a wild creature. Our mountains would be riven with ski slopes, and bedroom communities would cover what were once their foothills. Our seas would still shine, but the gleam would come from oil slicks and the eerie glow of radioactive waste. And our guns would be history.
So hold your nose, take a deep breath, and engage in the political process. It's putrid, appalling, and enough to make you want to run in the opposite direction--until you consider where that direction leads. Are there any questions from the press? I didn't think so. Thank you, and good night."
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I'm sure someone will get their panties in a bunch over what I am about to say, but someone has to say it:
I ask, what difference will it make? The problem, as I see it, is getting people to go to the voting places in the first place, or to put it another way, getting people involved in the political process. My friend wrote a piece for our local paper, encouraging people to get involved (in addition to just voting), and I am sorry to say, it had little or no measurable effect. It is very discouraging.
I have been working with my brother for years trying to develop robots with mining related applications. We have gold mines that we could reopen if we could cut the labor cost, which is the greatest expense. We are experimenting with off-the-shelf technology from other industries.
On the other hand, as miners in a long family of miners, we are concerned at the loss of mining jobs. That concern is tempered by the lack of participation I see from other miners when it comes to being politically active. It's hard to keep the fight for rights up when you're alone. And that apathy is exactly why groups get BOHICA'd. Soon we'll have UAV's flying aeromag and other airborne geophysical surveys, which is fine by me, considering the prohibitive cost with the conventional method.
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All you would need is a legit FEIN, and real or forged Articles of Formation. Maybe an operating agreement. Open a bank account and VOILA!"
Not anymore. I sometimes set up LLC's and corporations, and now you need photo ID and other documents to open a bank account. I will admit that there are workarounds, however.
I life my life for myself. Many will think that a selfish attitude, and they are right. But it is no more selfish than those who would tell me how to live my life, for example by telling me to not climb mountains, get shot at, or sleep alone and unprotected in Grizzly country. It is my life, and my choices. I believe that life is about choosing either to live, or merely exist. For me, living is seeking out experiences and challenges, and I'd rather die while living, even if it be fighting to save the life of someone else, rather than to die in a chair of an aneurism.
If it bleeds, it leads.
Think about it: even the Bible ends with fire, brimstone, and the Pocyclypse. Humans need conflict and challenge, and have the need to rubberneck at auto crashes, or gossip about the misfortunes of another. This goes back to our earliest days. Why? I don't have an answer to that, probably because my science is rocks, not biology or sociology. But I know that it is so, just as people stare at the fire (or the modern equivalent for most people-the TV).
^CE^
I didn't discover it until maybe the 4th or 5th season, and now I shall get the DVD's to see what I missed as it started out. IMO it is one of the best sci-fi/comedy/action shows on TV, even better than many films. I especially loved the episode where they were spoofing their own show, in the interest of credible denialability. As a bonus, my girlfriend even loves the show.
Here are a couple more articles: "Alaska Bugs Sweat Gold Nuggets", and "Domesticating the Gold Bugs, and the Copper Bugs Too" so it's not really new.
I notice that whenever a government makes a tax or levy on something, bootleggers, smugglers, and others (like cops, lawyers, judges, et. al) profit. Other than ordinary citizen made criminals by laws and regulation, not a damn thing is changed.
Alaska Bugs Sweat Gold Nuggets
I can't count the number of times I wanted to dispose of a particularly stupid Sim, and a shotgun would have done nicely, instead of drowning them. I only played the game because my GF at the time made me. Man, the things we do for, er um love, yeah. She got really angry when I finally got the naked women sims to kiss and stuff. Now, I got a new GF who likes games like GTA and naked girls in UT2003. WooHoo!
President Bush to Liberate Alaska!
Linux Gold Corp. Identify Placer Gold Targets on the Fish
I just don't trust Asscraft and Ronald Dumsfeld and the whole "Patriot Act" gestapo setup. Crime Pays, and They Know It.
President Bush to Liberate Alaska
Perhaps before I realized that Coke and others were selling tap water for prices higher than gasoline. Ok, I may be a little pissed that I didn't think of it, but still. I believe there will be money made by someone before people wake up.
President Bush to Liberate Alaska
Alaska Bugs Sweat Gold Nuggets
Alaska Bugs Sweat Gold Nuggets
""Initially they were Dumpster diving (a few years ago), but now they've actually progressed into tearing open black garbage bags in cans that don't have lids," said Jessy Coltrane, the assistant area biologist for the Alaska Department of Fish and Game. "When moose start getting into garbage, they're almost worse than bears because they're pretty persistent about it."
Make Your Own Gold Mine
In the movie "Sneakers", the girl tricked the guy into saying his passphrase. Yes, I know it's just a movie, but I'm sure, in the intervening years, something better has come up.
Fire marshal orders freeze on ice hotel
Doing nothing is still worse than doing something. Getting into politics is like taking your seat in an airplane. The odds are that the person jammed in 2 inches away from you is someone you wouldn't let into your house unless you could train a gun on him. But does this deter you from flying? Of course not. Putting yourself in the proximity of the loathsome is the price you pay for traveling by air.
Look at it this way: American politics has remained essentially unchanged since our country's founding. It is an open sewer with ghastly objects floating in it, nameless horrors bobbing in its noisome currents. Yet if we did not dive in, what would happen?
Our plains would be transformed into endless fields of corporate-owned, genetically engineered crops with not a square foot of cover anywhere for a wild creature. Our mountains would be riven with ski slopes, and bedroom communities would cover what were once their foothills. Our seas would still shine, but the gleam would come from oil slicks and the eerie glow of radioactive waste. And our guns would be history.
So hold your nose, take a deep breath, and engage in the political process. It's putrid, appalling, and enough to make you want to run in the opposite direction--until you consider where that direction leads. Are there any questions from the press? I didn't think so. Thank you, and good night."
I ask, what difference will it make? The problem, as I see it, is getting people to go to the voting places in the first place, or to put it another way, getting people involved in the political process. My friend wrote a piece for our local paper, encouraging people to get involved (in addition to just voting), and I am sorry to say, it had little or no measurable effect. It is very discouraging.
Alaska Village invited to test cheap, clean nuclear power
On the other hand, as miners in a long family of miners, we are concerned at the loss of mining jobs. That concern is tempered by the lack of participation I see from other miners when it comes to being politically active. It's hard to keep the fight for rights up when you're alone. And that apathy is exactly why groups get BOHICA'd. Soon we'll have UAV's flying aeromag and other airborne geophysical surveys, which is fine by me, considering the prohibitive cost with the conventional method.
Alaska Village invited to test cheap, clean nuclear power
Ok, I know this is a serious matter, but did he have to pick "Buck Doe"? Sounds like a porn star for bestiality movies!