You know, come to think of it... Even my step-dad still had a pager back in 2005. He was the director of IS for the company I used to work for and yes, he was on call A LOT. He was also sent to Germany a lot... That pager worked EVERYWHERE, trust me. He also had a company cell phone, which didn't work everywhere. (Trust me, this company wasn't very smart... it took him ten years to get them to direct deposit checks lol... not to mention the mess of technology they had- yes, it was a MESS!)
Yeah, we ALWAYS had pager service.. and we cleaned Ranger Stations. Most of them were definitely in the back woods and one... well, one winter, the car was skating on top of a foot of ice that was on top of four feet of snow- and that was an area that got plowed fairly recent. Dufur wasn't so bad but you couldn't get cell service there, even if it was close to The Dalles... bet you can now, though. Then again, service back in the brick phone days wasn't quite as good as now...
I've known employees who have dropped them in the toilet and they still functioned afterwards
Oh well. If at first you don't succeed, try, try again!
You mean, like, drive over it? Lol, I know someone who drove over his phone with an 18-wheeler and his wife was STILL able to talk the cell company into believing it fell under their clause so they could get another free one.
Omg, is it worse than it used to be? I remember my pager being quite heinous. When I was awake- especially when I was drving- I had to have the thing on vibrate or it would cause me to wreck or something. I hated having it on noise because the sucker was so LOUD. Sometimes, I put it in the console in between the front seats in my Ramcharger and the noise it made from vibrating IN there was almost as loud as the sound... lol. Seriously, you didn't wear the thing when it was on vibrate or you were likely to jump ten feet in the air... and if the sound went off, the same would happen. Heck, I could put the sucker on vibrate and stick it on my dresser and it would wake me up... I also remember my last pager having four different sounds... there was one that wasn't so annoying compared to all the rest... We all had pagers while my mom had the "brick" phone... lol. The whole family was her janitorial employees- except for the few friends and disabled people she employed. Yeah, the brick phone... man, memories...
The way the motor labors is attached to fuel efficiency. A vehicle with an engine in it that has the required amount of power for the weight of the load/vehicle will be more efficient than one with an engine that's not powerful enough. Likewise, type of vehicle matters. Those in SUV's, pick-up trucks, etc. will get less mileage than those in compact cars. SUV's and pick-ups are built to haul loads and will have engines that can pull more weight and will use more gas.
As for fuel efficiency and motor labor, I've found that in an automatic, you have certain spots where your rpm is higher because the motor has to work harder. Go a little faster and you can get to where it kicks into another gear, which will reduce the rpm's- thereby reducing the usage of gas. In a manual transmission, there's a perfect spot to shift at. You have to watch the rpm guage to find the right spot, as well as hear/feel the operation of the engine. Shift too soon and the rpm's are too low and you have to use more gas to keep it running/speed up. Shift too late and you're using more gas before you shift because the motor is running harder.
I think the one car I had with the best gas mileage was my Honda Civic Wagon. The thing was Forest Service green, with road stripe yellow pin stripes on it but it ran great and got great fuel economy. This was a manual transmission and because of that, it had the 1500 motor and not the 1300 motor my brother's 1983 Civic had (his wasn't a wagon style, as well as being automatic transmission instead of manual). I always averaged 45 miles to the gallon on mine and my brother averaged 40 on his. Personally, I think the 1300 motor wasn't quite enough power and the 1500 was perfect for the Civics. Now, because it was an early 80's car, it still had a carburetor- NO fuel injection! The same goes for my brother's Civic he had. Those cars were great for most driving and fuel efficiency... I really miss mine. They also almost never broke down. My brother ran his engine to 450 thousand miles before he had to rebuild it. I had to change the catalytic converter on mine (which was bolted in and really easy to change) but other than that just had to perform regular maintenance.
There's another way to cut on gas usage. MAINTAIN YOUR VEHICLE! Maintaining your vehicle will always raise your mpg and lengthen your vehicle's life.
What else? Don't drive crazy. Only haul things if you need to. (If you have a ton of stuff in the back but don't need to transport it anywhere, clean it out.) Here's something most people do wrong... oil changes. Oil change recommendation is three-thousand miles or three months- WHICHEVER COMES FIRST! I always did monthly oil changes and every other month, I replaced the filter. Many people let that go for much longer than it should. One guy I worked with had let his oil go for so long that it wasn't liquid anymore. It was solid, in clumps and sticking to everything inside his engine. He had to have the whole engine taken apart, cleaned out, re-bored, etc. It was a lot of work that didn't need to be done if he had just changed his oil. Oil pans and filters... Many people won't clean out their oil pans and change the gaskets. How do you think it leaks oil like a sieve? Where do you think that dirt came from? Oil filters should also be changed. The time it should stay in the vehicle depends on the filter you buy. Some are better and some are worse. However, if you do your own oil changes, filters are dirt cheap and it's not hard to change it every oil change or every other oil change. Air filters. This is possibly the easiest thing to tell if it needs a change or not. Do you see bugs in it? Can you actually see light come through it? Does it look horribly dirty on the paper? You tell me... Not changing this can adversely affect your fuel consumption. CHECK IT REGULARLY! Every time you do an oil change is a great time to do so. Fuel filter. If this is clogged, your car won't run right, may stop (act like you don't have gas) and can waste gas by forcing the
The last time I worked, we didn't go on the internet much but our best computer was a P1, with all the rest being either 286 or 486. One person did go on the network and found games on another computer in another area of the fab and played those a lot, though. Our shift was the most productive of our area, though, so they left us alone. We had long breaks and goofed off but we got the work done- a lot more than the rest of the shifts- and did it safely. Out of all the other shifts, one other shift put out about half the volume that we did. One shift didn't care because their day shift harassed them and told the management lies about them and the other shift was too busy telling lies about everyone to be very productive..
There's some slight possibility that the customer data from RBS was transferred to another for some business reason. I'm not sure how this would happen or why, though. Once it's transferred out, it's not under RBS's eye. Also, it's possible someone stole the information. Possibly an inside job?
Yeah, why do you think bodybuilders eat a ton of carbs before working out? They do this so they bulk out instead of the exercises thinning them out due to the amount of carbs they burn during this time. Both Aerobic and Anaerobic exercises can burn a lot of calories. Professionals and even amateurs will do both aerobic and anaerobic exercises to get in shape. The main things dividing the two exercises are the intensity levels and aerobic means you consume more oxygen, making you breathe heavier, while anaerobic exercises don't consume more oxygen like the aerobic exercises do. Likewise, Anaerobic exercises typically build more power and bulk, while Aerobic will benefit your body in many ways by strengthening parts of your body you wouldn't think about while exercising. These ways include: strengthening muscles that are involved in respiration, strengthening and enlarging the heart muscle (to make it more healthy), toning muscles, improving circulation and reducing blood pressure, increasing the total amount of red blood cells in your body (which allows more oxygen to move about) and improved mental health. These are many well known facts but there are also unknown benefits (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerobic_exercise ). (The known benefits are also found on that page.) I personally would do an aerobic exercise one day and an anaerobic one another day and also switch using different parts of my body, so that nothing gets overworked or underworked. For Aerobic, you can break out the old Sweating to the Oldies tape you have hiding in the house, jog in place, ride your bicycle everywhere you can... especially for everyday things. Anaerobic exercise examples would be: push-ups, weight lifting and there's several resistance training exercises you could do at home. One is ye olde medicine ball. There's A LOT you can do with that...
Yes... it takes a lot to train a dog. Last summer, my mom got a dog. This animal shelter in Tulsa had a few shelties they had rescued and she chose one. Now, the dog is sweet and only wants your food and attention but it has several behavioral attitudes. I've been able to train her out of some of them but I doubt I'll be able to get her so that she stops freaking out when a storm is going on. At least she barks some and will walk a leash, now... Now, I'm a cat person and I've been pretty much forced to take care of someone else's dog. Hopefully, I can get a cat sometime. I'm actually thinking of training it a little.
Yes, Nancy Kress wrote a few stories about cloning and genetically manipulating animals and humans. In one story, there's a rich woman with a pink, genetically manipulated dog. Why pink? Simply, she had the money and no one else had a pink one. In the story, she used it as a conversation piece.
::Angels sing::
http://www.powells.com/psection/ScienceFictionandFantasy.html
Notice they have a used book button ^.^ and there's a $7 and under link. ^.^ ^.^
Anyway, that's where I'd go to get books. I used to live close enough to walk into the main store. Then, I'd look to see if any of my favorite authors had signed any of the posts, while I found a book... It's not a book club thing, so you're not going to get stuff sent to you. You can buy whenever, it's MUCH better than Barnes and Noble and there's a lot more choice than there is at the library. Trust me, I know, the sci-fi and fantasy sections are like the last stocked at the library. There's hardly ever anything there...
We don't have DVR but basically, when the tv is on, I pretty much ignore the ads or turn the channel. There seems to be a pattern with how long the ads are during an ad break, when it will happen, etc. so it's fairly easy to skip them without missing a part of the show. Some ads are entertaining, though. Most of the ads I like are- for instance- the Discovery Channel Boom-de-ah-da one. On the internet, I have a script blocker and if it's a site that's for an ad, I block it. Actually, it automatically blocks until the first time I tell it to unblock and I can always change it. I never see ads on the internet unless I want to. On Slashdot, I have 2/3 scripts allowed. Google-analytics and Slashdot are allowed but doubleclick isn't.
Yeah, it's when companies take this thought to extremes is when they show their true colors of idiocy. There is nothing too expensive about getting a new printer to replace one that's failing before it actually stops working completely. We actually lost two days (48 hours) of production because this happened on the weekend and we couldn't get anyone from any of the cushy office positions to bother to- I don't know- possibly make a call to a supplier? I mean, that's just wrong...
Well yes and no. The deciding factor is what's involved in replacement -- which is the fix if said unsupported items break. You've got to project likely failure modes & their respective costs. The replacement must be sufficiently cheaper in those failure modes (either by ease of repair or by eliminating modes) to justify its own adoption cost. So you/can/ have old stuff that works fine just be left till it finally fails before replacement, as proactive replacement would be an unecessary expense.
We're dealing with hypotheticals of course, so I'm just broadening rather than disagreeing.
The parent's example was "They had the power off to the building earlier in the year and the Tandem folks weren't sure they knew how to power the system on properly - that's how long it had been running", which might only mean they had to dig out a binder or two at the very bottom of the deepest file cabinet, & hence it made for a good water-cooler remark about that great old Tandem system. Not necessarily a disaster senario with OMGOMG spread over several days of trying to figure out what the old proceedure is.
It sounds like they wanted to update a working system to something that doesn't work because there's available training on the non-working system and no training available for the old, yet well-running stuff. The technological place I worked at didn't upgrade the furnaces in our area and NO ONE knew how to work the computers in them. Those were there since around the mid-70's. They would go down every so often and no one could fix it... so, they had to get engineers from the sister plant in Germany to try and patch it over... (they didn't really even know, either but could get them working again, even if they didn't know what they did to fix it). Yeah, updating that would shut down ALL productivity of the whole building.
Dunno about that. My mom's employer (UPS) still runs old mainframes (and employs COBOL coders) because switching would be too expensive/time prohibitive/etc.
Sometimes companies just have ancient systems somewhere in their infrastructure cause they can't gut them. Yeah, I worked for a place from 2000 to 2005 and just our work area on the production floor had four 286's and two P1's. I didn't check the one for the label maker in Batch Clean but I doubt that was better than 286. Pretty much everyone on the production floor had to deal with stuff like that. I'm sure if I went to their server center, I'd find a relic there... maybe I should ask my step-dad about that. He knew all about that, since he was the head of IT there. Yeah and this is a company that makes the start of the computer chip... They weren't smart... I remember when I temped for them, I had to translate the German blueprints into English and I told them I didn't know a bit of German (not true... I knew swear words and pastry names but that's beside the point). It was fun, though. I got to do some hand drafting. I also helped them update all their blueprints, which were last updated about 15 years ago... Maybe it's more laziness on their part, rather than a cost problem... Maybe I should check their internet/intranet for old code... I bet I'll find some...
Yeah, my daughter is six and for about three and a half years now, she's been having a blast looking things up on Wikipedia. I think I'll point her to NASA because I know she'll love looking at the pictures. Of course, that means a whole new slew of questions but I figure I'll never get away from that with her... She's like Questiongirl, with the superpower to ask more questions than anyone else in the world and all in one minute, I swear.
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One of the many bad parts of this steaming pile, is that Oregon is broke. Timber funds are way down, and every county is struggling.
So we're going to take money that should be going to schools, roads, removing meth cooks, etc and blowing it on crap like this. You know, Oregon has done that in the past, too. When funds were tighter, instead of consolidating and doing the best they could on what they had, they just ended up blowing it on stupid things like that. Instead of playing their little games, they need to get to it and find a way to make the Oregon economy to work without taxing the residents to death. Washington has found a way, or at least seems to... and it's just North of there, with a similar landscape and such.
...and the Holy Pillars of Signatures... yeah... They've had so many authors visit and they just let them sign their names on the pillars in the main store... Man, I need to visit there again. I think I'll take my boyfriend's mom... she'll want to live there...
I used to live in OR and WA. I lived in OR for pretty much all of my childhood, in out-of-reach-ish places like Vernonia, Detroit, etc. I lived in WA after that until about 2005. Oregon used to be a lot more care-free. They always had a higher property tax and income tax but no sales tax. However, the Oregon government seems to have been squeezing more out of people, not doing more and trying to tell everyone what they should do. If you decide to move over to Washington, I'd completely understand. It's like Oregon went from its innocence to becoming a money-grubbing church matron. Now, I don't know if there has been any changes after I left the Pacific Coast and I really couldn't say if the problems in Oregon are more due to corrupt officials than just people not understanding what they're doing or mis-managing money but I can say it didn't look good back then and still doesn't...
Omg, I used to live at Powell's! Which one? Umm... it was a different one for each day of the week. I've bought books from them, sold books to them, drooled in their store- I mean... Anyway... the owner of the Powell's chain has always stood up to his ideals. I personally look up to him, being a business owner and sticking to morals he finds true- no matter what. With as big as Powell's is, they won't die... the government can't kill them. I think if the government tries to go further with this... if they're smart, they'll go for a law that forces the publishers to change ratings, as well as review their materials more thoroughly. With that, the government would be able to force the sellers to deny sales of particular ratings to minors. I really hope it doesn't get to this. If parents are really concerned about what their children are buying, doing, getting, etc. then they need to be more of a part of their lives. It does take a village to rear a child but it's the parents who need to make the choices and get involved.
I can tell you I was certainly NOT loving it, and the emotion going thru my head was that I was pissed off at the airplane. Actually, I'd be pissed at the mechanics or the plane's maker... but that's beside the point. Of course, no one loves to crash things in a deadly way or whatever but like everyone's said: the man WAS doing something he loved before the plane started to crash...
Yeah, for suing the American Red Cross, I would definitely boycott them. There is always the generic brand stuff, which for the most part, is pretty close to the same thing. There's natural products and I don't think Johnson and Johnson does anything like that. Your best bet for natural products is to go to the nature section of your store or a store specializing in that stuff. Also, for household cleaners, you can find a local (or on the internet) janitorial supply place. You can be assured there's no Johnson and Johnson products there. More like: Spartan Chemicals, Mistermax Chemicals, etc.
I don't understand. I see the Johnson and Johnson signature and recognize it as theirs. I see the red cross and recognize it as the American Red Cross. If Johnson and Johnson changed their signature to look different, I wouldn't recognize their product. If they stopped using the red cross, I would still recognize their product.
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You know, come to think of it... Even my step-dad still had a pager back in 2005. He was the director of IS for the company I used to work for and yes, he was on call A LOT. He was also sent to Germany a lot... That pager worked EVERYWHERE, trust me. He also had a company cell phone, which didn't work everywhere. (Trust me, this company wasn't very smart... it took him ten years to get them to direct deposit checks lol... not to mention the mess of technology they had- yes, it was a MESS!)
Yeah, we ALWAYS had pager service.. and we cleaned Ranger Stations. Most of them were definitely in the back woods and one... well, one winter, the car was skating on top of a foot of ice that was on top of four feet of snow- and that was an area that got plowed fairly recent. Dufur wasn't so bad but you couldn't get cell service there, even if it was close to The Dalles... bet you can now, though. Then again, service back in the brick phone days wasn't quite as good as now...
I've known employees who have dropped them in the toilet and they still functioned afterwards
Oh well. If at first you don't succeed, try, try again!
You mean, like, drive over it? Lol, I know someone who drove over his phone with an 18-wheeler and his wife was STILL able to talk the cell company into believing it fell under their clause so they could get another free one.
Omg, is it worse than it used to be? I remember my pager being quite heinous. When I was awake- especially when I was drving- I had to have the thing on vibrate or it would cause me to wreck or something. I hated having it on noise because the sucker was so LOUD. Sometimes, I put it in the console in between the front seats in my Ramcharger and the noise it made from vibrating IN there was almost as loud as the sound... lol. Seriously, you didn't wear the thing when it was on vibrate or you were likely to jump ten feet in the air... and if the sound went off, the same would happen. Heck, I could put the sucker on vibrate and stick it on my dresser and it would wake me up... I also remember my last pager having four different sounds... there was one that wasn't so annoying compared to all the rest... We all had pagers while my mom had the "brick" phone... lol. The whole family was her janitorial employees- except for the few friends and disabled people she employed. Yeah, the brick phone... man, memories...
The way the motor labors is attached to fuel efficiency. A vehicle with an engine in it that has the required amount of power for the weight of the load/vehicle will be more efficient than one with an engine that's not powerful enough. Likewise, type of vehicle matters. Those in SUV's, pick-up trucks, etc. will get less mileage than those in compact cars. SUV's and pick-ups are built to haul loads and will have engines that can pull more weight and will use more gas. As for fuel efficiency and motor labor, I've found that in an automatic, you have certain spots where your rpm is higher because the motor has to work harder. Go a little faster and you can get to where it kicks into another gear, which will reduce the rpm's- thereby reducing the usage of gas. In a manual transmission, there's a perfect spot to shift at. You have to watch the rpm guage to find the right spot, as well as hear/feel the operation of the engine. Shift too soon and the rpm's are too low and you have to use more gas to keep it running/speed up. Shift too late and you're using more gas before you shift because the motor is running harder. I think the one car I had with the best gas mileage was my Honda Civic Wagon. The thing was Forest Service green, with road stripe yellow pin stripes on it but it ran great and got great fuel economy. This was a manual transmission and because of that, it had the 1500 motor and not the 1300 motor my brother's 1983 Civic had (his wasn't a wagon style, as well as being automatic transmission instead of manual). I always averaged 45 miles to the gallon on mine and my brother averaged 40 on his. Personally, I think the 1300 motor wasn't quite enough power and the 1500 was perfect for the Civics. Now, because it was an early 80's car, it still had a carburetor- NO fuel injection! The same goes for my brother's Civic he had. Those cars were great for most driving and fuel efficiency... I really miss mine. They also almost never broke down. My brother ran his engine to 450 thousand miles before he had to rebuild it. I had to change the catalytic converter on mine (which was bolted in and really easy to change) but other than that just had to perform regular maintenance. There's another way to cut on gas usage. MAINTAIN YOUR VEHICLE! Maintaining your vehicle will always raise your mpg and lengthen your vehicle's life. What else? Don't drive crazy. Only haul things if you need to. (If you have a ton of stuff in the back but don't need to transport it anywhere, clean it out.) Here's something most people do wrong... oil changes. Oil change recommendation is three-thousand miles or three months- WHICHEVER COMES FIRST! I always did monthly oil changes and every other month, I replaced the filter. Many people let that go for much longer than it should. One guy I worked with had let his oil go for so long that it wasn't liquid anymore. It was solid, in clumps and sticking to everything inside his engine. He had to have the whole engine taken apart, cleaned out, re-bored, etc. It was a lot of work that didn't need to be done if he had just changed his oil. Oil pans and filters... Many people won't clean out their oil pans and change the gaskets. How do you think it leaks oil like a sieve? Where do you think that dirt came from? Oil filters should also be changed. The time it should stay in the vehicle depends on the filter you buy. Some are better and some are worse. However, if you do your own oil changes, filters are dirt cheap and it's not hard to change it every oil change or every other oil change. Air filters. This is possibly the easiest thing to tell if it needs a change or not. Do you see bugs in it? Can you actually see light come through it? Does it look horribly dirty on the paper? You tell me... Not changing this can adversely affect your fuel consumption. CHECK IT REGULARLY! Every time you do an oil change is a great time to do so. Fuel filter. If this is clogged, your car won't run right, may stop (act like you don't have gas) and can waste gas by forcing the
(snip) Or, maybe they want to remind people of a fish, that swims alone from the crowd with a brilliant display of features.
They better make it rated R for violence, then...
The last time I worked, we didn't go on the internet much but our best computer was a P1, with all the rest being either 286 or 486. One person did go on the network and found games on another computer in another area of the fab and played those a lot, though. Our shift was the most productive of our area, though, so they left us alone. We had long breaks and goofed off but we got the work done- a lot more than the rest of the shifts- and did it safely. Out of all the other shifts, one other shift put out about half the volume that we did. One shift didn't care because their day shift harassed them and told the management lies about them and the other shift was too busy telling lies about everyone to be very productive..
There's some slight possibility that the customer data from RBS was transferred to another for some business reason. I'm not sure how this would happen or why, though. Once it's transferred out, it's not under RBS's eye. Also, it's possible someone stole the information. Possibly an inside job?
Yeah, why do you think bodybuilders eat a ton of carbs before working out? They do this so they bulk out instead of the exercises thinning them out due to the amount of carbs they burn during this time. Both Aerobic and Anaerobic exercises can burn a lot of calories. Professionals and even amateurs will do both aerobic and anaerobic exercises to get in shape. The main things dividing the two exercises are the intensity levels and aerobic means you consume more oxygen, making you breathe heavier, while anaerobic exercises don't consume more oxygen like the aerobic exercises do. Likewise, Anaerobic exercises typically build more power and bulk, while Aerobic will benefit your body in many ways by strengthening parts of your body you wouldn't think about while exercising. These ways include: strengthening muscles that are involved in respiration, strengthening and enlarging the heart muscle (to make it more healthy), toning muscles, improving circulation and reducing blood pressure, increasing the total amount of red blood cells in your body (which allows more oxygen to move about) and improved mental health. These are many well known facts but there are also unknown benefits (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerobic_exercise ). (The known benefits are also found on that page.) I personally would do an aerobic exercise one day and an anaerobic one another day and also switch using different parts of my body, so that nothing gets overworked or underworked. For Aerobic, you can break out the old Sweating to the Oldies tape you have hiding in the house, jog in place, ride your bicycle everywhere you can... especially for everyday things. Anaerobic exercise examples would be: push-ups, weight lifting and there's several resistance training exercises you could do at home. One is ye olde medicine ball. There's A LOT you can do with that...
Yes... it takes a lot to train a dog. Last summer, my mom got a dog. This animal shelter in Tulsa had a few shelties they had rescued and she chose one. Now, the dog is sweet and only wants your food and attention but it has several behavioral attitudes. I've been able to train her out of some of them but I doubt I'll be able to get her so that she stops freaking out when a storm is going on. At least she barks some and will walk a leash, now... Now, I'm a cat person and I've been pretty much forced to take care of someone else's dog. Hopefully, I can get a cat sometime. I'm actually thinking of training it a little.
Yes, Nancy Kress wrote a few stories about cloning and genetically manipulating animals and humans. In one story, there's a rich woman with a pink, genetically manipulated dog. Why pink? Simply, she had the money and no one else had a pink one. In the story, she used it as a conversation piece.
::Angels sing:: http://www.powells.com/psection/ScienceFictionandFantasy.html Notice they have a used book button ^.^ and there's a $7 and under link. ^.^ ^.^ Anyway, that's where I'd go to get books. I used to live close enough to walk into the main store. Then, I'd look to see if any of my favorite authors had signed any of the posts, while I found a book... It's not a book club thing, so you're not going to get stuff sent to you. You can buy whenever, it's MUCH better than Barnes and Noble and there's a lot more choice than there is at the library. Trust me, I know, the sci-fi and fantasy sections are like the last stocked at the library. There's hardly ever anything there...
We don't have DVR but basically, when the tv is on, I pretty much ignore the ads or turn the channel. There seems to be a pattern with how long the ads are during an ad break, when it will happen, etc. so it's fairly easy to skip them without missing a part of the show. Some ads are entertaining, though. Most of the ads I like are- for instance- the Discovery Channel Boom-de-ah-da one. On the internet, I have a script blocker and if it's a site that's for an ad, I block it. Actually, it automatically blocks until the first time I tell it to unblock and I can always change it. I never see ads on the internet unless I want to. On Slashdot, I have 2/3 scripts allowed. Google-analytics and Slashdot are allowed but doubleclick isn't.
It sounds like they wanted to update a working system to something that doesn't work because there's available training on the non-working system and no training available for the old, yet well-running stuff. The technological place I worked at didn't upgrade the furnaces in our area and NO ONE knew how to work the computers in them. Those were there since around the mid-70's. They would go down every so often and no one could fix it... so, they had to get engineers from the sister plant in Germany to try and patch it over... (they didn't really even know, either but could get them working again, even if they didn't know what they did to fix it). Yeah, updating that would shut down ALL productivity of the whole building.
Yeah, my daughter is six and for about three and a half years now, she's been having a blast looking things up on Wikipedia. I think I'll point her to NASA because I know she'll love looking at the pictures. Of course, that means a whole new slew of questions but I figure I'll never get away from that with her... She's like Questiongirl, with the superpower to ask more questions than anyone else in the world and all in one minute, I swear.
Lol, yeah, maybe they should "smoke" more, like Eugene does... or have they quit there, too, since I left?...
...and the Holy Pillars of Signatures... yeah... They've had so many authors visit and they just let them sign their names on the pillars in the main store... Man, I need to visit there again. I think I'll take my boyfriend's mom... she'll want to live there...
I used to live in OR and WA. I lived in OR for pretty much all of my childhood, in out-of-reach-ish places like Vernonia, Detroit, etc. I lived in WA after that until about 2005. Oregon used to be a lot more care-free. They always had a higher property tax and income tax but no sales tax. However, the Oregon government seems to have been squeezing more out of people, not doing more and trying to tell everyone what they should do. If you decide to move over to Washington, I'd completely understand. It's like Oregon went from its innocence to becoming a money-grubbing church matron. Now, I don't know if there has been any changes after I left the Pacific Coast and I really couldn't say if the problems in Oregon are more due to corrupt officials than just people not understanding what they're doing or mis-managing money but I can say it didn't look good back then and still doesn't...
Omg, I used to live at Powell's! Which one? Umm... it was a different one for each day of the week. I've bought books from them, sold books to them, drooled in their store- I mean... Anyway... the owner of the Powell's chain has always stood up to his ideals. I personally look up to him, being a business owner and sticking to morals he finds true- no matter what. With as big as Powell's is, they won't die... the government can't kill them. I think if the government tries to go further with this... if they're smart, they'll go for a law that forces the publishers to change ratings, as well as review their materials more thoroughly. With that, the government would be able to force the sellers to deny sales of particular ratings to minors. I really hope it doesn't get to this. If parents are really concerned about what their children are buying, doing, getting, etc. then they need to be more of a part of their lives. It does take a village to rear a child but it's the parents who need to make the choices and get involved.
Yeah, for suing the American Red Cross, I would definitely boycott them. There is always the generic brand stuff, which for the most part, is pretty close to the same thing. There's natural products and I don't think Johnson and Johnson does anything like that. Your best bet for natural products is to go to the nature section of your store or a store specializing in that stuff. Also, for household cleaners, you can find a local (or on the internet) janitorial supply place. You can be assured there's no Johnson and Johnson products there. More like: Spartan Chemicals, Mistermax Chemicals, etc.
I don't understand. I see the Johnson and Johnson signature and recognize it as theirs. I see the red cross and recognize it as the American Red Cross. If Johnson and Johnson changed their signature to look different, I wouldn't recognize their product. If they stopped using the red cross, I would still recognize their product.