Depending on which news network you check depends on what you are told... At this point I feel the major news media is covering up the fact he was contagious since Wednesday of last week by either saying his symptoms started later or that he has been in the hospital since Sunday. The person arrived here on the 20th. I have read some articles saying he started showing symptoms on Wednesday Sept 24th and that he went to the Hospital (the same hospital that has been readying itself to handle Ebola) he was then sent home with Antibiotics. He then came back several days later VIA ambulance because his condition worsened. “After arriving in the U.S. on Sept. 20, the man began to develop symptoms last Wednesday and initially sought care two days later. But he was released. At the time, hospital officials did not know he had been in West Africa. He returned later as his condition worsened.” http://www.stripes.com/news/us...
Failure 1: They never asked him and he never divulged he was from Liberia? Failure 2: They misdiagnosed the issue as a common cold or bacteria infection. Failure 3: will they really be able to trace everyone if he went somewhere in public while showing symptoms (he must have gone somewhere to get the antibiotic prescription filled, how many people in CVS, Rite-Aid etc. got exposed?)
Failure 4: They are assuming he will divulge even people who may be here illegally living with his friends or family. Most likely these people will not seek medical treatment nor be reported for fear of deportation they may finally report to the hospital when critically ill but in the interim they are an exposure risk to the general public. Failure 5: The hospital was not using any Tyvex suits, booties, face masks, etc when treating this patient on Friday. They were using no EBOLA precautions. This article from the New York Times also contradicts completely the BS being spread through NBC news that just washing your hands will prevent contracting Ebola. Two problems with that are that washing your hands will not stop ebola if you came in contact with infected fluids or someone with ebola you can’t just wash it off. Secondly this study here proves americans do not wash their hands enough http://abcnews.go.com/Health/s... Here is the CDC recommendations to the hospitals which this hospital DID NOT FOLLOW until the patient came back http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/p...
The CDC list was revised after the doctors below spoke out about the initial precautions CDC recommended which were gloves and paper mask!
“But Dr. Michael V. Callahan, an infectious disease specialist at Massachusetts General Hospital who has worked in Africa during Ebola outbreaks, does not think it is wrong for hospitals to opt for more protective equipment. The minimal precautions recommended by the C.D.C. “led to the infection of my nurses and physician co-workers who came in contact with body fluids,” Dr. Callahan said. “I understand the desire to maintain absolute protection in U.S. hospitals.” Dr. Justin Fairless, an emergency physician in Tulsa, Okla., said that health care workers in Africa “are wearing the highest level of protection, but the C.D.C. recommendation lets us go down to the lowest level of protection.” Dr. Fairless is considering buying his own air-purifying respirator to pair with a head-to-toe coverall. “I am not comfortable going to see an Ebola patient wearing a paper mask that doesn’t cover my entire face,”
This is EXACTLY what every media company wants. This is EXACTLY what every corporation wants
Take away the media and use the allure of convenience and simplicity to groom everyone that did not grow up with tapes, records and CD's to feel it is normal to Rent, Lease or never own any content that is distributed by media companies. The generations now are being groomed for a toss away, rent, lease away lifestyle. A lifestyle of everything saved in the cloud so they are protected against data loss without any awareness of privacy issues or even further rights over their data. A generation that has no idea that it is not normal to just rent everything and that the money you work for should be used to purchase real tangible items. The generation coming up now has no understanding of differentiation between tangible and non tangible items.
This everything is rented/leased and never owned model is where everything is heading towards eventually because it ensures a perpetual revenue stream for multimillion dollar corporations.
Senior Living Communities - Pack everyone into a center that offers minimal assistance with the illusion of living independent. You end up surrendering your life savings to live in one of these paying 4x what you would for a rather large home and you don't own it. You don't pay and your out. You build no equity and yet pay out $1,200.00 a month or more...most around here are $2,000.00 a month!
Video Games - Ubisoft is already doing this and others will follow suit, you will have one time use DLC codes that basically make the game worthless without one. Thereby the game disc becomes nothing more then a loader and the actual content is all DRM'd downloads.
New and used home sales are in the dumps still due to the economy - rentals are the future its attractive to investors who form LLP or LLC management companies as it is a consistent revenue stream and rent be adjusted based on economy. Banks would be better insured by providing loans to these then hundreds of individual borrowers.
Streaming Music - Pay a subscription
Data Plan - Pay for a subscription and you need it to be in the "in" group and stay in touch on FB, Twitter etc which are all media advertising platforms. No one would have ever accepted paying $100.00 or more per month for cellular service back 10 years ago before all the smart phones. The funny thing is the more connected by phones and "social networks" people become the more disconnected they become from their family and friends in real life.
Pay Per View - Eventually all major sports go to blackouts and you will have to have a subscription or Pay Per View as they make more direct money this way then through advertisers. They then offer special discounts on NFL, NHL, MLB, NBA merchandise for being a subscriber.
Movies won't be on DVD or Blu Ray everything will be streaming media
It will be just like in the movie Vendetta owning anything on physical media will be a crime as all recording devices will be DRM'd with licenses burned into the discs making the useless.
Sounds just like the movie Runaway... Then I started thinking how many other things out there have copied movies...
DARPA is working on cloaking technology like the Predator & Star Trek (someone from DARPA actually called the movie studio in 1986 to ask how they made the predator invisible, apparently the person calling from DARPA didn't know much about Hollywood Special FX
MIT & DARPA - Remote controlled bugs like the dragonfly in Lexx
DARPA, Air Force, South Korea & Others Drones & Robots Like Deal of the Century, Robocop's ED209,
XBox Kinect - Minority Report Computer Interface
Gecko Robot & Wall Climbing - Spiderman
If life keeps copying art we're all in deep s**t! Who's looking forward to our robot overlords ?
geeze try to be funny in forum that has a big linux base of participants and end up with a score of troll... thats a first...wasn't my goal to troll... people need to lighten up!
Guy1: "Hey Bro I just got these cool upgrades, I got a LCD in my chest to personalize with my animations and stuff, some cool 20 digit fingers so can wail on my 18 string guitar, and my heart is now supercharged so I can perform better in next weeks football game"
Guy2: "Dude thats so cool... So did you go with Microsoft, Linux, or Apple Bionic Operating System?"
Guy1: (suddenly falls on the ground) on his LCD it reads "Were sorry a Fatal Exception Has Occured 0x000007B inaccessible Boot Device" please restart Windows Bionic and try again if this message reappears contact your nearest bionic manufacturer".
Guy2: That answers that... will the noobs ever learn? Pros don't use Windoze!
Once George Eastman died Kodak began its death knell...
Kodak for many years was not profitable the big trend in the 1990's was to Layoff and fire a bunch of fulltime workers in the 3rd and 4th quaters right around July & August (just in time to save on paying out vacation pay) and then again around November to December up to 1 week before Christmas. I know this because I watched peoples parents who worked 15, 20, 25, and 30 years at the company get pink slips for no reason. Then right after the new year 1st quater they would bring in thousands of temp workers to backfill those jobs. Meanwhile this made their stock float and made them look profitable since a company profits are determined by sales - costs . So by lessing the payroll they more or less fudged their profitability for years. Look back at all the layoff annoucements they always happened in the 3rd and 4th quaters of the year just in time to give the stock a bounce in the new year.
Additionally Kodak workers in the Rochester are were very loyal they bought only Kodak Cameras and anything else that was Kodak. Years ago they had employee suggestion boxes where if employees made a suggestion that benefitted the company, a refinement to an assembly line, a better way to product something, a new product an employee could write in the suggestions and in turn if it helped make the company more money by cutting costs or creating new streams of revenue the employee would see a percentage bonus in their pay based on the amount of money that idea generated. I know many people whos parents and grandparents got monetary awards from this program. However by the 1990's Kodak managers would just take your ideas as theirs and the monetary award system was ended. They became greedy
in this same area people were reporting strange odors, animals becoming sick and dying, weird residue on their cars and homes, and odd fluids seeping up in their basements. One of the famous areas was Rand Street. Kodak was sued and they ended up paying out an undisclosed amount to owners of some of the Rand Street Homes. Kodak was sued multiple times for illegal dumping, fined multiple times by the EPA for being out of compliance with their factory exaust stacks. However the EPA was up and down with them while they went against them on some things they backed them on others. It wasnt until the 1990's the EPA started cracking down on them. Prior to that they turned a blind eye to what they were doing.
However they still continued to pollute the rochester region. Eastman Chemical which was part of Kodak until spun off had experimental chemicals inside of it that no one even know what they would do if they ever escaped the drums they were being stored in and because they were deemed "experimental" they did not have the same precautions and established handling procedures as known chemicals which carry MSDS sheets etc. Toulene, Benze, TCE you name it they had it.
The management became a complete joke you had managers managing managers, managing managers they made the same mistake that Xerox did. Too many inexperienced or burned out chiefs and not enough Indians. The 1990s caused part of this issue with the EOE b.s. many times fully qualified caucasian workers were passed up for job promotions, management positions and so forth especially males. If you were Latino, African American, or Asian or had a certain sexual preference you would get promoted to the top in no time even if you didn't knw how to do the job or have a college background or experience in it. Xerox did the same thing. They were both paranoid of dis
The core dems really have no representation just like the core republicans. Obama is extremely liberal so the left loves him and the core dems are almost split down the middle between him and McCain
The core republicans do not like McCain and consider Hillary better then McCain however if Obama is the dems choice for the general election the republicans will certainly fall in line with McCain whereas there could be a huge defection of core conservatives to the Dems side with Hillary being the front candidate thereby strengthening the democratic party.
Obama is ruining that possibility and making the dems much more leftist and liberal and weaker as a party. So in affect he is destroying the party and so is all of his supporters. But he nor his supporters will see it because everyone has been blinded by the dog and pony show that he is and his ever reminiscent MLK words of hope and change.
A candidate needs to reach across the ailes
McCain can reach to core dems and far right republicans
Hillary can reach to core conseratives and almost all dems
Obama can only reach to the liberals and part of the core dems
Without being able to reach across party lines he surely will not win. He will have to have Hillary on his ticket to pull in more core dems otherwise expect McCain to win by 67% or higher in the general election. By contrast If Hillary were to run as president on the she would get 10 - 30% of the republican vote and 40 to 45% core dem vote. Putting her at 55% - 75% in the general. Hillary has the swing states Obama does not the swing states have always determined the presidency! Obama without Hillary will probably get 45% of the dem vote providing he has the support of the newly registered voters and the african american support as he had in the primary.
A president himself cannot change the world and if people do not support his change nothing changes so everyone needs to have a reality check. Really the left needs to have there own party at this point because they have gone too far left and are pulling the rest of the party with them.
There should be 3 parties in my opinion as the core dems and the true conservatives actually have sense and sensibility and really have no true representation with either Obama or McCain or the parties they represent. The far right and far left are all about fanaticism that blindly leads them with emotional drive versus intelligent, analytical drive. The far right is power hungry the far left is feel good hungry neither one of these represent a stable state of thought it is emotional drive all the way. The proof is in the pudding as every far left supporters reason for electing Obama is "He inspires me" that is a FEELING not a fact.
If Obama gets elected as president and screws up the dems will never see another White House bid for years and any upcoming house and senate elections will end up with the republicans getting back those seats because all the ticked off core democrats that were not heard and forgotten will be voting for the republicans to take back over since the dems can't seem to get anything right. I am sure he has a lot of skeletons in his closet that still have yet to see the light of day and you can bet the republicans are already arming that battleship
I would like to know where they get these numbers from....
I am in New York and my highest paying job has been $39,000.00 to date and that is for doing desktop support. Which includes new installs, hardware/ software install, upgrades, inventory, drive imaging, movng equipment, troubleshooting, software integration, and network troubleshooting. I also have several Microsoft and CompTIA certifications... even checking monster.com for just an MCSE type job I only see 50 - 60k per year and that is with 5 - 10 years experience and a 4 year Bachelors in I.T. or Computer Science. From what I have seen on the support side of the house in terms of compensation is no where near those numbers for compensation.
Even this is rediculous http://redmondmag.com/salarysurveys/
an MCDST for $57,000+ I would like to know where that job is in the U.S..... California only ???
an MCP for $70,000.00.... really ??? so an MCP on Windows XP should get me that ?
Can anyone please tell me where the heck they are getting this data from ?
This REALLY REALLY REALLY SUCKS. I am a huge fan of BSG!!!!
Sci Fi Channel seems to just be killing good series one after another.
The last one they killed that I loved was Farscape. Farscape won numerous awards including the Saturn award. They even had the Jim Henson shop who for years have maintained a mark of creativity and excellence.
Now Sci-Fi kills off BSG (they have won Saturn awards)!!!!
Why? I'm sorry to me Stargate should not have run more then 1 season same old story over and over again the acting was over the top and it just was not all that interesting. Every week someone almost dies, same as Star Trek someone almost dies oh no the warp core blah blah blah. DS9 was about the Vulcan, The Female Klingon and whatever the weird looking whiny thing was called - CHEESE! I know some people may not like this but hey at least BSG and Farscape provided different angles, more dynamics yes longer drawn out but a hell of a lot more realistic. BSG was very gritty in comparison to any other Sci-Fi TV series. Firefly was good but Farscape should have been a movie long before Firefly (Serenity) became one.
What is left now on SCI-FI channel nothing but wrestling ??? WTF ? and chessy B class Sci-Fi Movies like Sharkboy or whatever it was. There Sci - Fi picture original movies for the most part SUCK!
Seems like everytime they have a winner Farscape, BSG, etc... they kill it off and lets face it Stargate should have been dead several years ago.
They are turning into what MTV is now. MTV was all music videos now it is all reality shows and nothing to do with Music Videos they just play some music in the background. Sci-Fi was supposed to be all about Sci-Fi now it seems it is turning into a general purpose cable channel. Don't worry I am sure they will use a Star Trek backdrop while they have some reality show on.
Thanks for that info on EA's dark and mysterious do not call us business. I appreciate it
DON"T BUY FROM THEIR ONLINE STORE !!! BUYER BEWARE
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My friend is a big Superman fan and pre-ordered "Superman Returns" the video game direct from the EA store. This was in April, the game then got pushed back to a November release date. In the meantime he had already been charged for the game. The game was supposed to be released on November 20th. As of November 24th my friend still did not recieve his game.
The only way to contact someone at the EA store if their is a problem is by logging in and sending a support e-mail which they say someone will get back to you in 24 hours. Three days later my friend still heard nothing after sending a support email and asked if I could help him somehow. I tried to find a phone number for the EA store - no luck, checked their main website etc... still no numbers got the address for EA games and googled it which gave me the corporate HQ number and location in the U.S. Called long distance to California to try to get it sorted out and the secretary instantly put my friend into an automated computer response system that did not have any options for the problem he was experiencing it then took a survey from him and hung up on him.
We called back a second time and got the same secretary again who transferred us to some guy that just went by the name of "Mike" he would not give his ufll name badge number nothing... I asekd him how my buddy could just get a refund since he went out and bought the game at the store since no one had gotten back to him. The guy said "Their is no one you can contact at the EA store the only way to contact someone is through their webmail form" I asked for a supervisor he said "I don't have the name of one to give you" I asked well who do I contact if this is not resolved ? He had no answer. I asked for his information in case this wasn't taken care of he just gave me his first name and refused to give me any other information and just kept saying it will be corrected I have let a supervisor know.
The morale of this story I would NEVER BUY ANYTHING DIRECT FROM EA EVER.
- He paid ahead of time
- They have no customer service except for email
- They have a don't call us or contact us if you have a problem policy
- They have a VERY SHADY way of doing business with customers.
- You can't talk to anyone live if you have a problem. Unless you call corporate HQ in which case you might get a Janitor for all anyone knows named "MIKE".
The AD supported model for internet acces isn't new. Back in 1998 - 1999 when Net Zero first started, you got free internet access in exchange for them running a banner across your desktop. Of course people found ways around this and from time to time their advertising software would make Windows crash when it would update.
Eventually they started limiting how many hours a day you could use the free service and I think at this point they have completely done away with it and went to a $9.95 month paying consumer model.
They had a lot of advertisers at first but then you started to notice little by little less and less different advertisers were running their ads with Net Zero. The reason they attracted the cheap of the cheap so very few people bought what they were advertising.
AOL has always been slow because of all of their advertisiments I can't possibly see how they are changing anything other then not getting customers to pay to view ads anymore. All AOL is, is an advertising portal. Why anyone would pay $24.95 a month to view ads all day is beyond me. Maybe it is the Fisher Price interface that makes it so attractive to the newbies:)
AOL= ADVERTISING ON LINE
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Something written to disrupt BitTorrent is that you RIAA or MPAA? A little early for Halloween costumes isn't it ?
Depending on which news network you check depends on what you are told... At this point I feel the major news media is covering up the fact he was contagious since Wednesday of last week by either saying his symptoms started later or that he has been in the hospital since Sunday.
The person arrived here on the 20th. I have read some articles saying he started showing symptoms on Wednesday Sept 24th and that he went to the Hospital (the same hospital that has been readying itself to handle Ebola) he was then sent home with Antibiotics. He then came back several days later VIA ambulance because his condition worsened.
“After arriving in the U.S. on Sept. 20, the man began to develop symptoms last Wednesday and initially sought care two days later. But he was released. At the time, hospital officials did not know he had been in West Africa. He returned later as his condition worsened.”
http://www.stripes.com/news/us...
Failure 1: They never asked him and he never divulged he was from Liberia?
Failure 2: They misdiagnosed the issue as a common cold or bacteria infection.
Failure 3: will they really be able to trace everyone if he went somewhere in public while showing symptoms (he must have gone somewhere to get the antibiotic prescription filled, how many people in CVS, Rite-Aid etc. got exposed?)
Failure 4: They are assuming he will divulge even people who may be here illegally living with his friends or family. Most likely these people will not seek medical treatment nor be reported for fear of deportation they may finally report to the hospital when critically ill but in the interim they are an exposure risk to the general public.
Failure 5: The hospital was not using any Tyvex suits, booties, face masks, etc when treating this patient on Friday. They were using no EBOLA precautions. This article from the New York Times also contradicts completely the BS being spread through NBC news that just washing your hands will prevent contracting Ebola. Two problems with that are that washing your hands will not stop ebola if you came in contact with infected fluids or someone with ebola you can’t just wash it off. Secondly this study here proves americans do not wash their hands enough
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/s...
Here is the CDC recommendations to the hospitals which this hospital DID NOT FOLLOW until the patient came back
http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/p...
The CDC list was revised after the doctors below spoke out about the initial precautions CDC recommended which were gloves and paper mask!
“But Dr. Michael V. Callahan, an infectious disease specialist at Massachusetts General Hospital who has worked in Africa during Ebola outbreaks, does not think it is wrong for hospitals to opt for more protective equipment.
The minimal precautions recommended by the C.D.C. “led to the infection of my nurses and physician co-workers who came in contact with body fluids,” Dr. Callahan said. “I understand the desire to maintain absolute protection in U.S. hospitals.”
Dr. Justin Fairless, an emergency physician in Tulsa, Okla., said that health care workers in Africa “are wearing the highest level of protection, but the C.D.C. recommendation lets us go down to the lowest level of protection.”
Dr. Fairless is considering buying his own air-purifying respirator to pair with a head-to-toe coverall. “I am not comfortable going to see an Ebola patient wearing a paper mask that doesn’t cover my entire face,”
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08...
After the article CDC recently revised their recommendations to this:
This is EXACTLY what every media company wants. This is EXACTLY what every corporation wants
Take away the media and use the allure of convenience and simplicity to groom everyone that did not grow up with tapes, records and CD's to feel it is normal to Rent, Lease or never own any content that is distributed by media companies. The generations now are being groomed for a toss away, rent, lease away lifestyle. A lifestyle of everything saved in the cloud so they are protected against data loss without any awareness of privacy issues or even further rights over their data. A generation that has no idea that it is not normal to just rent everything and that the money you work for should be used to purchase real tangible items. The generation coming up now has no understanding of differentiation between tangible and non tangible items.
This everything is rented/leased and never owned model is where everything is heading towards eventually because it ensures a perpetual revenue stream for multimillion dollar corporations.
Senior Living Communities - Pack everyone into a center that offers minimal assistance with the illusion of living independent. You end up surrendering your life savings to live in one of these paying 4x what you would for a rather large home and you don't own it. You don't pay and your out. You build no equity and yet pay out $1,200.00 a month or more...most around here are $2,000.00 a month!
Video Games - Ubisoft is already doing this and others will follow suit, you will have one time use DLC codes that basically make the game worthless without one. Thereby the game disc becomes nothing more then a loader and the actual content is all DRM'd downloads.
New and used home sales are in the dumps still due to the economy - rentals are the future its attractive to investors who form LLP or LLC management companies as it is a consistent revenue stream and rent be adjusted based on economy. Banks would be better insured by providing loans to these then hundreds of individual borrowers.
Streaming Music - Pay a subscription
Data Plan - Pay for a subscription and you need it to be in the "in" group and stay in touch on FB, Twitter etc which are all media advertising platforms. No one would have ever accepted paying $100.00 or more per month for cellular service back 10 years ago before all the smart phones. The funny thing is the more connected by phones and "social networks" people become the more disconnected they become from their family and friends in real life.
Pay Per View - Eventually all major sports go to blackouts and you will have to have a subscription or Pay Per View as they make more direct money this way then through advertisers. They then offer special discounts on NFL, NHL, MLB, NBA merchandise for being a subscriber.
Movies won't be on DVD or Blu Ray everything will be streaming media
It will be just like in the movie Vendetta owning anything on physical media will be a crime as all recording devices will be DRM'd with licenses burned into the discs making the useless.
Sounds just like the movie Runaway... Then I started thinking how many other things out there have copied movies...
DARPA is working on cloaking technology like the Predator & Star Trek (someone from DARPA actually called the movie studio in 1986 to ask how they made the predator invisible, apparently the person calling from DARPA didn't know much about Hollywood Special FX
MIT & DARPA - Remote controlled bugs like the dragonfly in Lexx
DARPA, Air Force, South Korea & Others Drones & Robots Like Deal of the Century, Robocop's ED209,
XBox Kinect - Minority Report Computer Interface
Gecko Robot & Wall Climbing - Spiderman
If life keeps copying art we're all in deep s**t! Who's looking forward to our robot overlords ?
Oh well.... you win some you lose some..
geeze try to be funny in forum that has a big linux base of participants and end up with a score of troll... thats a first...wasn't my goal to troll... people need to lighten up!
Sometime in the future.......
Guy1: "Hey Bro I just got these cool upgrades, I got a LCD in my chest to personalize with my animations and stuff, some cool 20 digit fingers so can wail on my 18 string guitar, and my heart is now supercharged so I can perform better in next weeks football game"
Guy2: "Dude thats so cool... So did you go with Microsoft, Linux, or Apple Bionic Operating System?"
Guy1: (suddenly falls on the ground) on his LCD it reads "Were sorry a Fatal Exception Has Occured 0x000007B inaccessible Boot Device" please restart Windows Bionic and try again if this message reappears contact your nearest bionic manufacturer".
Guy2: That answers that... will the noobs ever learn? Pros don't use Windoze!
Once George Eastman died Kodak began its death knell...
Kodak for many years was not profitable the big trend in the 1990's was to Layoff and fire a bunch of fulltime workers in the 3rd and 4th quaters right around July & August (just in time to save on paying out vacation pay) and then again around November to December up to 1 week before Christmas. I know this because I watched peoples parents who worked 15, 20, 25, and 30 years at the company get pink slips for no reason. Then right after the new year 1st quater they would bring in thousands of temp workers to backfill those jobs. Meanwhile this made their stock float and made them look profitable since a company profits are determined by sales - costs . So by lessing the payroll they more or less fudged their profitability for years. Look back at all the layoff annoucements they always happened in the 3rd and 4th quaters of the year just in time to give the stock a bounce in the new year.
Additionally Kodak workers in the Rochester are were very loyal they bought only Kodak Cameras and anything else that was Kodak. Years ago they had employee suggestion boxes where if employees made a suggestion that benefitted the company, a refinement to an assembly line, a better way to product something, a new product an employee could write in the suggestions and in turn if it helped make the company more money by cutting costs or creating new streams of revenue the employee would see a percentage bonus in their pay based on the amount of money that idea generated. I know many people whos parents and grandparents got monetary awards from this program. However by the 1990's Kodak managers would just take your ideas as theirs and the monetary award system was ended. They became greedy
Also over the years within a few square miles of Kodak Park was a cluster of kids coming down with rare cancers, http://www.nytimes.com/1998/03/02/nyregion/rochester-parents-fret-and-sue-over-cancer.html This is also a MUST READ http://www.coldtype.net/Assets/pdfs/17.Nim.May27.pdf
in this same area people were reporting strange odors, animals becoming sick and dying, weird residue on their cars and homes, and odd fluids seeping up in their basements. One of the famous areas was Rand Street. Kodak was sued and they ended up paying out an undisclosed amount to owners of some of the Rand Street Homes. Kodak was sued multiple times for illegal dumping, fined multiple times by the EPA for being out of compliance with their factory exaust stacks. However the EPA was up and down with them while they went against them on some things they backed them on others. It wasnt until the 1990's the EPA started cracking down on them. Prior to that they turned a blind eye to what they were doing.
However they still continued to pollute the rochester region. Eastman Chemical which was part of Kodak until spun off had experimental chemicals inside of it that no one even know what they would do if they ever escaped the drums they were being stored in and because they were deemed "experimental" they did not have the same precautions and established handling procedures as known chemicals which carry MSDS sheets etc. Toulene, Benze, TCE you name it they had it.
The management became a complete joke you had managers managing managers, managing managers they made the same mistake that Xerox did. Too many inexperienced or burned out chiefs and not enough Indians. The 1990s caused part of this issue with the EOE b.s. many times fully qualified caucasian workers were passed up for job promotions, management positions and so forth especially males. If you were Latino, African American, or Asian or had a certain sexual preference you would get promoted to the top in no time even if you didn't knw how to do the job or have a college background or experience in it. Xerox did the same thing. They were both paranoid of dis
The core dems really have no representation just like the core republicans. Obama is extremely liberal so the left loves him and the core dems are almost split down the middle between him and McCain
The core republicans do not like McCain and consider Hillary better then McCain however if Obama is the dems choice for the general election the republicans will certainly fall in line with McCain whereas there could be a huge defection of core conservatives to the Dems side with Hillary being the front candidate thereby strengthening the democratic party. Obama is ruining that possibility and making the dems much more leftist and liberal and weaker as a party. So in affect he is destroying the party and so is all of his supporters. But he nor his supporters will see it because everyone has been blinded by the dog and pony show that he is and his ever reminiscent MLK words of hope and change.
A candidate needs to reach across the ailes
McCain can reach to core dems and far right republicans
Hillary can reach to core conseratives and almost all dems
Obama can only reach to the liberals and part of the core dems
Without being able to reach across party lines he surely will not win. He will have to have Hillary on his ticket to pull in more core dems otherwise expect McCain to win by 67% or higher in the general election. By contrast If Hillary were to run as president on the she would get 10 - 30% of the republican vote and 40 to 45% core dem vote. Putting her at 55% - 75% in the general. Hillary has the swing states Obama does not the swing states have always determined the presidency! Obama without Hillary will probably get 45% of the dem vote providing he has the support of the newly registered voters and the african american support as he had in the primary.
A president himself cannot change the world and if people do not support his change nothing changes so everyone needs to have a reality check. Really the left needs to have there own party at this point because they have gone too far left and are pulling the rest of the party with them.
There should be 3 parties in my opinion as the core dems and the true conservatives actually have sense and sensibility and really have no true representation with either Obama or McCain or the parties they represent. The far right and far left are all about fanaticism that blindly leads them with emotional drive versus intelligent, analytical drive. The far right is power hungry the far left is feel good hungry neither one of these represent a stable state of thought it is emotional drive all the way. The proof is in the pudding as every far left supporters reason for electing Obama is "He inspires me" that is a FEELING not a fact.
If Obama gets elected as president and screws up the dems will never see another White House bid for years and any upcoming house and senate elections will end up with the republicans getting back those seats because all the ticked off core democrats that were not heard and forgotten will be voting for the republicans to take back over since the dems can't seem to get anything right. I am sure he has a lot of skeletons in his closet that still have yet to see the light of day and you can bet the republicans are already arming that battleship
I would like to know where they get these numbers from.... I am in New York and my highest paying job has been $39,000.00 to date and that is for doing desktop support. Which includes new installs, hardware/ software install, upgrades, inventory, drive imaging, movng equipment, troubleshooting, software integration, and network troubleshooting. I also have several Microsoft and CompTIA certifications... even checking monster.com for just an MCSE type job I only see 50 - 60k per year and that is with 5 - 10 years experience and a 4 year Bachelors in I.T. or Computer Science. From what I have seen on the support side of the house in terms of compensation is no where near those numbers for compensation. Even this is rediculous http://redmondmag.com/salarysurveys/ an MCDST for $57,000+ I would like to know where that job is in the U.S. .... California only ???
an MCP for $70,000.00 .... really ??? so an MCP on Windows XP should get me that ?
Can anyone please tell me where the heck they are getting this data from ?
This REALLY REALLY REALLY SUCKS. I am a huge fan of BSG!!!! Sci Fi Channel seems to just be killing good series one after another. The last one they killed that I loved was Farscape. Farscape won numerous awards including the Saturn award. They even had the Jim Henson shop who for years have maintained a mark of creativity and excellence. Now Sci-Fi kills off BSG (they have won Saturn awards)!!!! Why? I'm sorry to me Stargate should not have run more then 1 season same old story over and over again the acting was over the top and it just was not all that interesting. Every week someone almost dies, same as Star Trek someone almost dies oh no the warp core blah blah blah. DS9 was about the Vulcan, The Female Klingon and whatever the weird looking whiny thing was called - CHEESE! I know some people may not like this but hey at least BSG and Farscape provided different angles, more dynamics yes longer drawn out but a hell of a lot more realistic. BSG was very gritty in comparison to any other Sci-Fi TV series. Firefly was good but Farscape should have been a movie long before Firefly (Serenity) became one. What is left now on SCI-FI channel nothing but wrestling ??? WTF ? and chessy B class Sci-Fi Movies like Sharkboy or whatever it was. There Sci - Fi picture original movies for the most part SUCK! Seems like everytime they have a winner Farscape, BSG, etc... they kill it off and lets face it Stargate should have been dead several years ago. They are turning into what MTV is now. MTV was all music videos now it is all reality shows and nothing to do with Music Videos they just play some music in the background. Sci-Fi was supposed to be all about Sci-Fi now it seems it is turning into a general purpose cable channel. Don't worry I am sure they will use a Star Trek backdrop while they have some reality show on.
Thanks for that info on EA's dark and mysterious do not call us business. I appreciate it
My friend is a big Superman fan and pre-ordered "Superman Returns" the video game direct from the EA store. This was in April, the game then got pushed back to a November release date. In the meantime he had already been charged for the game. The game was supposed to be released on November 20th. As of November 24th my friend still did not recieve his game.
The only way to contact someone at the EA store if their is a problem is by logging in and sending a support e-mail which they say someone will get back to you in 24 hours. Three days later my friend still heard nothing after sending a support email and asked if I could help him somehow. I tried to find a phone number for the EA store - no luck, checked their main website etc... still no numbers got the address for EA games and googled it which gave me the corporate HQ number and location in the U.S. Called long distance to California to try to get it sorted out and the secretary instantly put my friend into an automated computer response system that did not have any options for the problem he was experiencing it then took a survey from him and hung up on him.
We called back a second time and got the same secretary again who transferred us to some guy that just went by the name of "Mike" he would not give his ufll name badge number nothing... I asekd him how my buddy could just get a refund since he went out and bought the game at the store since no one had gotten back to him. The guy said "Their is no one you can contact at the EA store the only way to contact someone is through their webmail form" I asked for a supervisor he said "I don't have the name of one to give you" I asked well who do I contact if this is not resolved ? He had no answer. I asked for his information in case this wasn't taken care of he just gave me his first name and refused to give me any other information and just kept saying it will be corrected I have let a supervisor know.
The morale of this story I would NEVER BUY ANYTHING DIRECT FROM EA EVER.
- He paid ahead of time
- They have no customer service except for email
- They have a don't call us or contact us if you have a problem policy
- They have a VERY SHADY way of doing business with customers.
- You can't talk to anyone live if you have a problem. Unless you call corporate HQ in which case you might get a Janitor for all anyone knows named "MIKE".
The AD supported model for internet acces isn't new. Back in 1998 - 1999 when Net Zero first started, you got free internet access in exchange for them running a banner across your desktop. Of course people found ways around this and from time to time their advertising software would make Windows crash when it would update. Eventually they started limiting how many hours a day you could use the free service and I think at this point they have completely done away with it and went to a $9.95 month paying consumer model. They had a lot of advertisers at first but then you started to notice little by little less and less different advertisers were running their ads with Net Zero. The reason they attracted the cheap of the cheap so very few people bought what they were advertising. AOL has always been slow because of all of their advertisiments I can't possibly see how they are changing anything other then not getting customers to pay to view ads anymore. All AOL is, is an advertising portal. Why anyone would pay $24.95 a month to view ads all day is beyond me. Maybe it is the Fisher Price interface that makes it so attractive to the newbies :)
AOL= ADVERTISING ON LINE
Everyone get out your trusty multiplexer Bulletin Board Systems are going to be making comeback... 4bit graphics because of 2bit companies!