From Usenet: The current season of Jeopardy will air new shows through July 23. From then until sometime right after Labor Day they will air repeats.
Jeopardy wrapped taping of this season's shows in April, at which time they also taped the first ten shows of next season.
As of the July 23rd show Ken Jennings will have won 38 shows, and when they return in the fall he will be seen to win the first ten shows of the new season, with a cumulative total winning somewhere around 1.5 million.
They will resume taping for the 2004-5 season sometime in August, when Ken Jennings will return to continue as undefeated champion for who knows how long. So yes, Ken is home in Utah right now, waiting until August.
While you have a very valid point about traffic flow and convenience, I have to ask why, if this is such a good business model, don't we hear about all the big chains doing it?
There actually is a legitimate reason for this. Most Starbucks in the country are company owned. So they can take the short term hit of having two locations next to each other for the long term improvement in business. On the other hand, most fast food joints are franchise operations, and each one has its own exclusive territory which they want to preserve. So the franchisee doesn't want to open another store of the same kind across the street because the franchisor isn't giving them money to do it (and it would be a large short term financial hit), while if any other franchisee moves in close proximity, the existing franchisee will scream bloody murder.
Almost every library in the country even remotely close to a decent sized population will have some sort of internet connection available to patrons, for *FREE* 90% of the time.
But you have to have a library card at most public libraries, and most of the time they will only give library cards to residents of the same state or city.
Now, college and university libraries are a much, much different story.
I'm sure day passes will eventually be released for this system.
They already have. Day passes will cost $10. I bet a lot of hotels will throw a day pass in as part of a comps package for mid rollers or frequent clients.
Of course in Los Angeles, the metro rail isn't allowed into the airport -- the closest it gets is about a couple miles away and you have to take a bus or taxi from there to get in. Why? Because LAX would lose so much money from taxicabs, shuttles, towncars, limos, buses, etc.
Yes, but the shuttle bus is free. It's no worse than Boston, which has an "airport" station that requires a shuttle bus connection. If they just renamed the Aviation station the "Airport" station, I bet a lot of people would quit complaining.
I agree, but it depends on the environment. I leave my wireless AP open because this is a relatively spread out neighborhood where I get 67% signal 6 feet from the access point (in other words, the AP is a POS that can't even transmit 50 feet). It's not near a window and I would notice if someone is parking on the street that I don't recognize.
And if someone is hacking when I'm at work, then I'm not responsible, just as I'm not responsible if someone plugs into the phone jack outside the house and starts making prank calls. And when I'm here I would notice a sudden drop in upload speeds (due to spammers or DDOS). So I leave it open here, but if I was in a college town, or in a block of dense apartments, I sure wouldn't leave it open for a second.
It should be noted, though, that Clear Channel refused to syndicate the Randi Rhodes show, even though it was aired by one of their stations, WJNO, and even though Randi was soundly beating Rush Limbaugh in the ratings when she was against Rush Limbaugh head to head. The stated reason was that if Clear Channel syndicated Randi, then Rush Limbaugh would bolt from Premiere Radio Networks (the syndication arm of Clear Channel).
So, while Clear Channel may not be conservative themselves, by syndicating all of these conservative hosts, they are liable to be jerked around by them even when it may not make any business sense whatsoever.
He also told me it was a smart decision on my part to come forward immediately with the information, because if they had found out that I knew and didn't tell them, I would have been expelled and barred from any post-secondary institution in North America for several years.
Bullshit. Even if you were expelled, most schools won't say more than the vaguest idea why. It's to prevent them from lawsuits. Besides, you could just omit that institution from your transcript and they would never know, if that was the case (which it isn't).
Needless to say, AP and Reuters are for-profit entities who only care about making money.
You're wrong on that. AP is a not for profit cooperative that is owned by all the newspapers that participate. So any "profit" that AP makes is merely passed back to the owners who paid for the service.
The second number is no longer in service, and the first number rejects calls without caller ID, so it appears that she's screening calls herself while complaining about others screening her emails.
For $10, you can travel from New York to Boston in a few hours, about the same time as driving. This is a perfect example of capitalism at work, as there are four or five different companies around New York Chinatown basically charging the same price. It used to be $25 but the whole SARS scare dropped the price, and they still haven't gone back up.
Fung Wah Bus is the biggest bus provider between the two points, but there's a swarm of other operators nearby as well.
"Under the proposal, the regular adult fare would rise to $1.25. Seniors, youth and the disabled would pay 45 cents -- an extra dime -- and the monthly Fast Pass would jump from $35 to $43.75. Muni officials contemplated a $44 price tag on the Fast Pass but dropped the idea once informed that the number four signifies death in the Chinese culture, and 44 would represent double-death.
"It would have been really culturally stupid, insulting," said Lynch, noting that a large number of Fast Pass holders are Chinese American."
Actually, the pass went up to $45 thanks to their complaints, when they realized that the bus pass vendors would have to dig up lots of quarters to give change for the pass. Hehehe.
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From Usenet:
The current season of Jeopardy will air new shows through July 23.
From then until sometime right after Labor Day they will air repeats.
Jeopardy wrapped taping of this season's shows in April, at which time
they also taped the first ten shows of next season.
As of the July 23rd show Ken Jennings will have won 38 shows, and when
they return in the fall he will be seen to win the first ten shows of
the new season, with a cumulative total winning somewhere around 1.5
million.
They will resume taping for the 2004-5 season sometime in August, when
Ken Jennings will return to continue as undefeated champion for who
knows how long. So yes, Ken is home in Utah right now, waiting until
August.
While you have a very valid point about traffic flow and convenience, I have to ask why, if this is such a good business model, don't we hear about all the big chains doing it?
There actually is a legitimate reason for this. Most Starbucks in the country are company owned. So they can take the short term hit of having two locations next to each other for the long term improvement in business. On the other hand, most fast food joints are franchise operations, and each one has its own exclusive territory which they want to preserve. So the franchisee doesn't want to open another store of the same kind across the street because the franchisor isn't giving them money to do it (and it would be a large short term financial hit), while if any other franchisee moves in close proximity, the existing franchisee will scream bloody murder.
Almost every library in the country even remotely close to a decent sized population will have some sort of internet connection available to patrons, for *FREE* 90% of the time.
But you have to have a library card at most public libraries, and most of the time they will only give library cards to residents of the same state or city.
Now, college and university libraries are a much, much different story.
I'm sure day passes will eventually be released for this system.
They already have. Day passes will cost $10. I bet a lot of hotels will throw a day pass in as part of a comps package for mid rollers or frequent clients.
Of course in Los Angeles, the metro rail isn't allowed into the airport -- the closest it gets is about a couple miles away and you have to take a bus or taxi from there to get in. Why? Because LAX would lose so much money from taxicabs, shuttles, towncars, limos, buses, etc.
Yes, but the shuttle bus is free. It's no worse than Boston, which has an "airport" station that requires a shuttle bus connection. If they just renamed the Aviation station the "Airport" station, I bet a lot of people would quit complaining.
There's also a time limit - so you can't get on at one station, spend the day on the train, then get off at the next station down the line.
No there isn't. I've killed hours of time on BART using the next station trick with no penalties.
Uh, the political compass has its own biases too.
I agree, but it depends on the environment. I leave my wireless AP open because this is a relatively spread out neighborhood where I get 67% signal 6 feet from the access point (in other words, the AP is a POS that can't even transmit 50 feet). It's not near a window and I would notice if someone is parking on the street that I don't recognize.
And if someone is hacking when I'm at work, then I'm not responsible, just as I'm not responsible if someone plugs into the phone jack outside the house and starts making prank calls. And when I'm here I would notice a sudden drop in upload speeds (due to spammers or DDOS). So I leave it open here, but if I was in a college town, or in a block of dense apartments, I sure wouldn't leave it open for a second.
It's pronounced BEAUT, you insensitive clod!
And the fact that Verizon (VZ) owns 50% of the company, with Vodaphone owning the other half.
An advisory panel voted unanimously to ban Diebold machines in four counties today.
You can't beat the simplicity of a spreadsheet. And it's free, no less.
Maybe the Big Phone Booth (SBC Park)?
It should be noted, though, that Clear Channel refused to syndicate the Randi Rhodes show, even though it was aired by one of their stations, WJNO, and even though Randi was soundly beating Rush Limbaugh in the ratings when she was against Rush Limbaugh head to head. The stated reason was that if Clear Channel syndicated Randi, then Rush Limbaugh would bolt from Premiere Radio Networks (the syndication arm of Clear Channel).
So, while Clear Channel may not be conservative themselves, by syndicating all of these conservative hosts, they are liable to be jerked around by them even when it may not make any business sense whatsoever.
He also told me it was a smart decision on my part to come forward immediately with the information, because if they had found out that I knew and didn't tell them, I would have been expelled and barred from any post-secondary institution in North America for several years.
Bullshit. Even if you were expelled, most schools won't say more than the vaguest idea why. It's to prevent them from lawsuits. Besides, you could just omit that institution from your transcript and they would never know, if that was the case (which it isn't).
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Maybe his work phone blocks long distance calls?
Not if they have the domains by proxy service purchased.
Needless to say, AP and Reuters are for-profit entities who only care about making money.
You're wrong on that. AP is a not for profit cooperative that is owned by all the newspapers that participate. So any "profit" that AP makes is merely passed back to the owners who paid for the service.
The second number is no longer in service, and the first number rejects calls without caller ID, so it appears that she's screening calls herself while complaining about others screening her emails.
Hypocrite.
For $10, you can travel from New York to Boston in a few hours, about the same time as driving. This is a perfect example of capitalism at work, as there are four or five different companies around New York Chinatown basically charging the same price. It used to be $25 but the whole SARS scare dropped the price, and they still haven't gone back up.
Fung Wah Bus is the biggest bus provider between the two points, but there's a swarm of other operators nearby as well.
From the San Francisco Chronicle:
"Under the proposal, the regular adult fare would rise to $1.25.
Seniors, youth and the disabled would pay 45 cents -- an extra dime --
and the monthly Fast Pass would jump from $35 to $43.75. Muni
officials contemplated a $44 price tag on the Fast Pass but dropped
the idea once informed that the number four signifies death in the
Chinese culture, and 44 would represent double-death.
"It would have been really culturally stupid, insulting," said Lynch,
noting that a large number of Fast Pass holders are Chinese American."
Actually, the pass went up to $45 thanks to their complaints, when they realized that the bus pass vendors would have to dig up lots of quarters to give change for the pass. Hehehe.
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According to Wilensky in this University press release, he claims to have been misquoted here.
See here for the temporary password, 1234.
Other SBC affiliates may have used the last four digits of the phone number as the default. Real bright these phone company types.