I liked the "asked" comment. Recently I was asked to leave a store after I said a store policy was bullshit Not loudly, just matter of factly. I refused to leave as I was being asked. She asked repeatedly and I said no, but feel free to call the police, but you are asking me. "If you order me to leave, I'll go." "Please leave." and I did. A friend pointed out that 'please' is a request, so I could have said no. Heh-heh. Nope, not gonna shop at Target any more.
I don't have a lot of good to say about Bill Gates, but as far as wealthy people goes, he is generous. I'm going to be donating $500 to an isolated village in Papua New Guinea. I would argue that I'm more generous in that I'm actually going to notice the money being given away. Not that I'm trying to be a martyr.
Others have mentioned Carnegie. If I would chose the most generous of the wealthy, it would probably be him. The fact that his wealth doesn't match Gates in inflation adjust terms doesn't matter. Carnegie had a much bigger slice of the economic pie than Gates does. Carnegie made a point of giving away most of it while he was still around to do so, not that he died in poverty.
Back to the idea of a slice of the pie, I don't know anything of what Gates has done. Yes, I know that he does work in disease research that doesn't affect me that much (though I did get malaria in Asia). I can't point out anything that he has done that has affected my life. However with Carnegie, all over the place I can see the libraries he helped to build. Once in a small town in New Zealand, I walked in and said, "This has got to be a Carnegie library" and it was.
I'm not dissing Bill on his generosity (nor Bono), just that I'm not sure that they deserve such accolades any more than somebody who lives down the street who gives until it hurts.
I still enjoy the Simpsons, but certainly not as much as I used to. I think they need a good dust-up and kick in the pants as I see hints of their former greatness and suspect they can still get the magic back.
Couple things that bother me are their continued reliance on celebrities. That's not what they are about to me and if they never had a guest celebrity on another show, I'd be more than ok with it. Also, no more shows about Marge/Homer doesn't love me anymore.
I don't know what sort of pressures they face from above or maybe they are tired. Maybe they need a rest and should take off a year and come back fresh.
When I was in northern France, there was a road that I walked down. To the left was an idyllic farm field. To the right was forest. There was small trail in the forest which had a sign warning absolutely not to leave the trail for any reason. Soon as I passed the gate, it was like being in another world. There were large shell holes that hadn't filled in (vegatation had stabilized them) and old trenches still there from WW I.
Down the road was a WWI memorial which had signs in many languages warning you not to pass the fence due to UXO. Beyond the fence was a hummocked landscapes, shell holes and trenches still there. A bunch of goats were there that kept the grass cut. I asked how often they lost a goat. The attendant said he wasn't allowed to tell!
Fairly common to see UXO on the sides of roads waiting to be picked up. In Belgium, there was a chemical weapon that a local showed me. He said a small shell will kill one or two people, but the chemical weapon could have killed everyone in a nearby village if the wind was in the right (wrong?:-) direction. He wasn't surprised that the bomb was found, just that it had been there for a few weeks without the demineurs (de-miners in English) coming to pick it up.
I've also been in Northern Laos where the locals told me of a beautiful trail, but not to leave the worn path. When I flew over Northern Laos (low altitude flight), I couldn't believe how many perfectly circular "ponds" about 30 ft. in diameter there were. Some villages were surrounded by dozens of them. I've was told when I was in Cambodia, that if your bus stops and the driver isn't familiar with the area and you have to go really, really bad, best to take a dump right on the road than to risk a land mine (Laos has more of a problem with larger aerial bombs, Cambodia has more of a land mine problem).
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> You can take a closer look at Rob in Carbonite
No thanks. I've seen enough of Rob, closer would just be that much more uncomfortable.
I liked the "asked" comment. Recently I was asked to leave a store after I said a store policy was bullshit Not loudly, just matter of factly. I refused to leave as I was being asked. She asked repeatedly and I said no, but feel free to call the police, but you are asking me. "If you order me to leave, I'll go." "Please leave." and I did. A friend pointed out that 'please' is a request, so I could have said no. Heh-heh. Nope, not gonna shop at Target any more.
I don't have a lot of good to say about Bill Gates, but as far as wealthy people goes, he is generous. I'm going to be donating $500 to an isolated village in Papua New Guinea. I would argue that I'm more generous in that I'm actually going to notice the money being given away. Not that I'm trying to be a martyr.
Others have mentioned Carnegie. If I would chose the most generous of the wealthy, it would probably be him. The fact that his wealth doesn't match Gates in inflation adjust terms doesn't matter. Carnegie had a much bigger slice of the economic pie than Gates does. Carnegie made a point of giving away most of it while he was still around to do so, not that he died in poverty.
Back to the idea of a slice of the pie, I don't know anything of what Gates has done. Yes, I know that he does work in disease research that doesn't affect me that much (though I did get malaria in Asia). I can't point out anything that he has done that has affected my life. However with Carnegie, all over the place I can see the libraries he helped to build. Once in a small town in New Zealand, I walked in and said, "This has got to be a Carnegie library" and it was.
I'm not dissing Bill on his generosity (nor Bono), just that I'm not sure that they deserve such accolades any more than somebody who lives down the street who gives until it hurts.
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I still enjoy the Simpsons, but certainly not as much as I used to. I think they need a good dust-up and kick in the pants as I see hints of their former greatness and suspect they can still get the magic back. Couple things that bother me are their continued reliance on celebrities. That's not what they are about to me and if they never had a guest celebrity on another show, I'd be more than ok with it. Also, no more shows about Marge/Homer doesn't love me anymore. I don't know what sort of pressures they face from above or maybe they are tired. Maybe they need a rest and should take off a year and come back fresh.
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Does this new validation system apply to win2k?
I've noticed that there is an update for win2k that has a new way of doing updes (if you know what I mean).
Should one download this new update or will it cause problems?
When I was in northern France, there was a road that I walked down. To the left was an idyllic farm field. To the right was forest. There was small trail in the forest which had a sign warning absolutely not to leave the trail for any reason. Soon as I passed the gate, it was like being in another world. There were large shell holes that hadn't filled in (vegatation had stabilized them) and old trenches still there from WW I.
:-) direction. He wasn't surprised that the bomb was found, just that it had been there for a few weeks without the demineurs (de-miners in English) coming to pick it up.
Down the road was a WWI memorial which had signs in many languages warning you not to pass the fence due to UXO. Beyond the fence was a hummocked landscapes, shell holes and trenches still there. A bunch of goats were there that kept the grass cut. I asked how often they lost a goat. The attendant said he wasn't allowed to tell!
Fairly common to see UXO on the sides of roads waiting to be picked up. In Belgium, there was a chemical weapon that a local showed me. He said a small shell will kill one or two people, but the chemical weapon could have killed everyone in a nearby village if the wind was in the right (wrong?
I've also been in Northern Laos where the locals told me of a beautiful trail, but not to leave the worn path. When I flew over Northern Laos (low altitude flight), I couldn't believe how many perfectly circular "ponds" about 30 ft. in diameter there were. Some villages were surrounded by dozens of them. I've was told when I was in Cambodia, that if your bus stops and the driver isn't familiar with the area and you have to go really, really bad, best to take a dump right on the road than to risk a land mine (Laos has more of a problem with larger aerial bombs, Cambodia has more of a land mine problem).