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[Dec. 16th, 2011|12:00 am] |
I've been hording a lot of stuff that I've wanted to get back to and it just hasn't happened, so I'm throwing them here. You might find some of it interesting, but it is rather long, and since I am setting the date to a future date, it'll be coming up at the top of your flist (I think), plus, I really, REALLY, like run on sentences
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| Doonesbury Say What? |
[Jul. 8th, 2009|07:27 am] |
"I think on a national level your department of law there in the White House would look at some of the things that we've been charged with and automatically throw them out."
-- Sarah Palin, on how she would handle ethics complaints if she were in the White House
I haven't seen the article yet, but I heard there is a Slate article saying that the real reason she quit is that she can make buckets of money on the Republican rubber chicken speaking circuit. She's another one where I'm waiting for her 15 minutes of fame to be up. |
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| Want 30 free songs from iTunes? |
[Jul. 6th, 2009|06:04 pm] |
I've been downloading programming classes from Stanford for free off of iTunes, and came across this link of 30 tunes that you can download for the same price. I haven't listened to them all yet, but what I have listened to are a mixed bag: some good, some I'll be deleting.
Anyway, maybe you'll find some that you like.
http://itunes.stanford.edu/summermusicmix/ |
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| There, I fixed it! |
[Jul. 4th, 2009|06:21 pm] |
This is a rather interesting web site showing some unusual solutions to problems that might have been better left to being fixed by professionals. Very clever photo site.
http://thereifixedit.com/ |
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| What's up with Linksys? |
[Jun. 26th, 2009|06:16 am] |
Most of you could probably care less about networking gear, but this is a little weird. A month or so ago I had to replace my cable modem, and it was Linksys. I replaced it with a Motorola, there really wasn't much of a selection here. Now it looks like my wireless router is flaking out, it also is Linksys. Here's the bit that I don't get: they're both designs that have come out since Cisco bought them. I probably would have bought the older style if they'd been available when I needed this gear, but they weren't. The old style is designed to stack nicely, these don't: especially now that I have two different brands.
The wireless router is a bit over two years old, the cable modem I bought in February!
This deserves a *GRRRRR*, this stuff isn't cheap and to have it crap out on you like this....! |
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| Doonesbury Say What? |
[Jun. 15th, 2009|06:10 am] |
"What Fox did is not just create a venue for alternative opinion. It created an alternate reality."
-- Fox news analyst Charles Krauthammer
Heh. Sing this to Morris Albert's Feelings if you're a glutton for punishment:
Ratings, looking for more ratings,
try to find more adver-tisers for our shows!
Teardrops, rolling down on my face,
as Republican voting base moves over to the blue!
(sorry, gotta get breakfast going or I'd continue. maybe I can do more tonight.) |
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| Doonesbury Say What? |
[Jun. 9th, 2009|11:36 am] |
"Destroying the best health care system the world has ever known."
-- Sen. Richard Shelby, on Obama
Yeah, in what version of reality? I know people who can't get insurance, who pay $600-1000 a month for coverage that has a $10,000 annual deductible, I know someone who flew to Thailand to have her gall bladder removed because it was less expensive than having it done in Phoenix, AND she took a friend with her!
There's a very easy way to fix the health care system. Take all of the Congresscritters and put half of them on Medicare, the other half in an HMO system. It would be reformed within a year.
Elizabeth Edwards was on The Daily Show a few weeks ago shilling her new book. She said that one in every $700 spent on health care (I'm not sure under that HMO or nationwide) was going to the salary of the CEO of the HMO that she was in. I'd really like to see the salary breakdowns of those guys, I can't believe that one was making that amount of money.
There is no way I could afford the tests that we've had done with my spate of illnesses. And the credit card industry and health care industry have gotten the bankruptcy laws changed so you cannot get medical debts discharged, so you can easily get doubly-screwed in that situation. It's definitely a messed-up situation, I don't know that a nationwide health plan is the answer, but something radical has got to be done to change things. |
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| Steve Ballmer says Microsoft will move programmers out of the country |
[Jun. 6th, 2009|09:37 am] |
if Obama goes through with revising tax shelter legislation to make American corporations pay more of the taxes that they're supposed to.
I am shocked, shocked I say.
Let 'em. Meanwhile, impose legislation that any company that isn't based in the US and doesn't pay American taxes doesn't get to lobby Congress, they have to go through the Department of State via whatever country they're based in. And since they're not an American corporation, they lose preference points for government contracts to American corporations. Hmmm, Oracle's SuSe Linux on government desktops and servers instead of Windows? More Oracle database on government servers instead of Microsoft SQL Server? Need to file a lawsuit against an American company that pays American taxes to protect your patents? We'll get back to you on that. "May I see your passport to reenter the country, Mr. Ballmer? (rubber glove goes *snap) Follow me into this back room, please?"
Same thing goes for Halliburton, now HQ'd in Qatar.
It's one thing to move manufacturing out of the country to save manufacturing costs, but manufacturing costs are almost nonexistent when it comes to the costs of Microsoft software. What do we get (at work) most of the time when we buy a copy of SQL Server? A single CD and a couple dozen sheets of paper. When we buy another license? We don't even get the CD, we might get a half dozen sheets of paper.
Lower the corporate tax rate if it will get the bastards to pay, but have a bunch of really big sticks behind your back if they start making threats like that.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aAKluP7yIwJY
http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/06/06/1153217/Ballmer-Threatens-To-Pull-Out-of-the-US?art_pos=2 |
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| Doonesbury Say What? |
[Jun. 6th, 2009|09:30 am] |
"I am being treated as a criminal."
-- complaint of Scott Roeder, charged with the murder of Dr. George Tiller
Yeah, funny that: you murder someone, and they treat you like a criminal! I thought this was America! It's those damn Democrats and Obama!
I would really love to know how many pro-Lifers are also pro-capital punishment. I'm not in favor of abortion, but I am in favor of proper sex education, not just this abstinence-only crap. Teach proper birth control, make it available, and you'll see a reduction in abortions. |
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| Doonesbury Say What? |
[Jun. 2nd, 2009|08:23 pm] |
"You know, Dick Clarke. Dick Clarke, who was the head of the counterterrorism program in the run-up to 9/11. He obviously missed it."
-- Dick Cheney, on Richard Clarke
"Bin Ladin Public Profile May Presage Attack" (5/3/01)
"Bin Ladin's Networks' Plans Advancing" (5/26/01)
"Bin Ladin Attacks May Be Imminent" (6/23/01)
"Bin Ladin and Associates Making Near-Term Threats" (6/25/01)
"Bin Ladin Planning High-Profile Attacks" (6/30/01)
"Planning for Bin Ladin Attacks Continues, Despite Delays" (7/02/01)
-- subject lines of Richard Clarke emails to Bush Administration prior to 9/11/01
And yet Bush/Cheney think that "history" will show they were good? |
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| Honolulu has an electronic election -- voting drops 83 percent! |
[May. 30th, 2009|11:49 am] |
You could vote by phone or computer, and people just didn't vote.
Three quotes of interest from TFA:
For the first time, Oahu voters had to use computers or the telephone to vote for their neighborhood board candidates and many people did not bother.
About 7,300 people voted this year, compared to 44,000 people who voted in the last neighborhood board race in 2007.
and The city cut its expenses in half by using computers and phone technology by Everyone Counts. It cost about $95,000.
and "This is the future for presidential elections, general elections, primary elections, all the way," Everyone Counts consultant Bob Watada said.
Watada is the former Campaign Spending Commission director.
"(It) gives access to a lot of people who haven't had the access, and you don't have the hanging chads, you don't have the miscounted absentee ballots, you don't have the ballots lost," he said.
How does this address people who don't have access? Anyone can request mail-in ballots, and there's always organizations who will transport you to the polls. And the polls are always ready to help disabled voters to vote.
So you have what appears to be a former gov't official goes to private industry and gets said gov't to spend $95K with his company implementing new voting technology that doesn't leave a voting trail, thus is questionable as to whether it would satisfy legal requirements for recounts. I can appreciate municipalities trying to save money, I work for one, but you have to be very careful trying to save money in offices such as the Clerks: elections, and trust in them, are just too important.
It would be very interesting to see what the full results were as cast by those 7,300 people to see how close the races were compared to previous elections.
http://www.kitv.com/politics/19573770/detail.html?treets=hon&tml=hon_9am&ts=T&tmi=hon_9am_1_02000105272009 |
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| Doonesbury Say What? |
[May. 30th, 2009|11:21 am] |
"Let's hope that the key conferences aren't when she's menstruating or something, or just before she's going to menstruate. That would really be bad. Lord knows what we would get then."
-- radio host G. Gordon Liddy on Judge Sonia Sotomayor
I wonder if he made similar comments when Ginsberg or O'Conners were nominated. For that matter, I wonder how many female judges there are? Liddy had better hope he never has to appear before one as a defendant! ;-)
Would Sotomayor be #3, or have there been other women on SCOTUS that I can't think of off-hand? In fact, the only time that I did jury duty a woman was presiding over the court.
MANY years ago I used to listen to Liddy's radio show, he was a lot more interesting than Rush. But then he made a comment that everyone who had AIDS deserved it. Isaac Asimov died of AIDS from contaminated blood used during heart surgery. My sister and grandmother had to be tested for AIDS because of blood transfusions. That was when I stopped listening to him, when I finally realized he was just another blowhard. |
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