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| 2003/5/19 [Transportation/Car, Transportation/Airplane] UID:28481 Activity:kinda low |
5/18 How much is a carpool lane ticket on 880 around Fremont? I thought
it's around $271, but the notification I received said I owe $321.
And, what's the easiest way for me to find if I qualify for traffic
school if I can't remember if my last traffic school is within the last
18 months?
\_ $271 is the minimum
\_ You scumbag, I hope you get socked with more than that next time,
and I hope your insurance company doubles your fees. Bastards
like you ought to be executed on the spot.
\_ Yeah because no one ever made a mistake. You're an idiot. -!op
\_ Fuck all that. Kill the cars. Jackhammer the roads.
\_ Why destroy perfectly good roads? Abortions for all!
Retroactive ones! The human race is a virus!
\_ Take it to a judge, admit guilt, ask for a reduced penalty because
you're a poor student or you're an idiot and didn't notice the
signs or something. The judge can also send you to traffic scool
no matter what for simple driving infractions like that. Whatever
you do, do not plead innocent. You're guilty as hell and you're
just going to annoy him. |
| 2003/5/19 [Transportation/Bicycle] UID:28482 Activity:low |
5/18 Ride Bike! http://csua.org/u/2z2 |
| 2003/5/19 [Politics/Foreign/Asia/Taiwan] UID:28483 Activity:high 75%like:28476 |
5/18 Fighting Censorship: Thread Restored
Taiwan has been accepted into WHO as an "Health Entity."
Congrats Taiwan!
\_ That's like the WHO accepting Alabama. Taiwan is an illegal
entity that is an indivisible part of the PRC.
\_ ignore those Taiwan's child play. People in Taiwan are dying,
Ministry of Health is stockpiling tens of million of N95
masks and refused to distributed to hospitals. Infection is
out of control as one hospital after another show cases of
cross-infection. Instead of trying to fix the disease,
Taiwan is playing politics... The really funny part is,
Taiwan is ALREADY in WHO (as Province of China). I really
don't know what is the big fuss is all about.
-- reporting from Taiwan
\_ If you really don't know what the fuss is about, then
you need to brush up on your history. Cf. Chiang-Kai
Sheck, Kuomintang, the airlift from the mainland after
WW2, and recent election of a pro-independence President.
\_ I didn't know there were any mainlanders here. I thought most
of the ethnic chinese here were from Taiwan, HK, or SG.
Identify yourself!
\_ What is SG?
\_ Singapore, also known as Singapura. Singa is from
Singh, an Indian / Sikh word meaning "lion".
Thus Singaore is also known as "lion city".
\_ The US is an illegal entity that is an indivisible part of
the British Crown.
\_ British Crown recognized US's independence long ago.
Pull your head out of your ass.
\_ if it was indivisible it couldn't have been divided.
\_ Your family will be sent a bill for the bullet.
\_ Nah, Taiwan declared independence and the establishment of
declaration of independence
the Taiwan Democratic Republic in 1895.
\_ which is as legitimate as the Manchuguo in North East China
\_ People of Taiwan were betrayed and disowned by
China to the Japanese in 1895. Of course the
declaration of independence is legitimate, or
are you saying Taiwan should belong to Japan?
\_ the independence was out of desperation as China
signed the shameful treaty, which 1. no one ever
recognized, and 2. if you ever read history, people
fought bravely resist Japanese's rule. It caused
so much casuaty that Japan resort using naval
bombardment to whipe out the resistance; a
Sharp contrast of what people in Taiwan is doing
today, which trying hard kissing USA's butt-hole
hoping US will do something for your cause. And
if you look at USA's track record, you would know
that Taiwan is just a bargain chip which USA will
give up if China is willing to pay the price.
\_ After betraying and disowning Taiwan for
50 years, Chinese came to Taiwan and promptly
butchered tens of thousands of Taiwanese
in 1947. Furthermore, in the following
decades, China butchered tens of millions of
its own people. Sorry, but the people of
Taiwan has every right to declare independence.
We don't owe China anything. US is a friend
and trading partner of Taiwan. No US
administration would survive the loss of
Taiwan to a PRC invasion. I am personally
not an advocate for Taiwan independence
because I still have some affinity for
China, and hope that it would continue to
change for the better, but please don't
give me bullshit like "Taiwan ... is an
indivisible part of the PRC".
\_ Taiwan is as valuable to the US imperialism as Israel. Just as
Israel distablizes the middle-east, Taiwan distablizes the
Far East.
\_ Hegemon! The DNC fax said "Hegemon!" We don't use "Imperialism"
anymore, idiot! That was last year! Fucking aye! Get it
together!
\_ destabilize .. learn engrish first lah. without taiwan and
US investments, prc still in stone age.
\_ Stability? Yes, nothing should change. Bad things such as the
nightmare that is the Arab controlled middle east should always
be that way because... well.. uhm... it's stable! Yeah, stable!
That's the ticket! I'm glad you're here on the motd and not
the State Department where you might be doing real harm to the
country and maybe the world.
\_ I claim legal dictatorship over the entire planet. You are
all my property. Start obeying my commands at once or I will
demand that the WHO eject you. --SupremeDictatorForLife
\_ Infidel! There is one true ruler. All Hail Joe!! Hail Joe!!!
http://members.tripod.com/mightyjoe/news.html
be sure to watch the "call to action" video.
\_ I think Belgium has a pre-existing claim of planetary wide
control over the world's legal system. |
| 2003/5/19-20 [Computer/HW/CPU] UID:28484 Activity:low |
5/18 Is it possible to force two (cpu-hungry) programs to each
run on a separate processor, on a dual-processor Dell running
Win2k?
\_ The OS isn't doing this for you?
\_ I'm not sure. Is there a way to check under Win2k?
\_ Look at your performance graph and see if the cpu's are
balanced. I don't know if you can do anything more.
\_http://www.mlin.net/SMPSeesaw.shtml |
| 2003/5/19 [Politics/Domestic/California, Politics/Domestic/California/Prop] UID:28485 Activity:very high |
5/18 Thank you Gray Davis, who increased state employement by 30%, and
who rewards his primary contributor, the Prison Unions, with fat
pay raises.
Vehicle-tax plan praised - Fee hike would spare drastic local cuts
http://www.recordnet.com/daily/news/articles/051803-gn-4.php
\_ I'm really tired of all this budget bullshit. Is there not a
single state that believe in fiscal responsibility? Any state
that require balanced budget in their constitution?
\_ The last time California ran budget surpluses during a boom
time, we had a "taxpayers revolt" and ended up with Prop 13.
We get what we deserve here. Every recession is like this.
Remember Pete Wilson's big round of tax increases?
\_ No, we had prop 13 because people were losing their houses.
I was here and I remember it.
\_ People were not losing their homes. That was all
bullshit.
\_ Idiot. I was there. Get out of the ivory tower and
join the real world where real people are hurt or helped
everyday by the real decisions real politicians make.
\_ I was there too. Everyone wants to pay
less taxes, but the money for things like schools
has to come from someplace. School quality in
California, which had been in the top 10% of
the country, plummeted and has stayed low since.
How old were you when this happened? No way can
you remember what was really going on. If you
go back and look at the newspaper archives, you
will find one or two people on fixed incomes who
supposedly lost their homes, out of a state with
a population of 20M. You live in a fantasyland.
\_ Yeah all the neighbors who put their houses up for
sale and left the state were just figments of my
deranged and aged mind. CA has many reasons for
being at the bottom of the school rankings, not
teaching the "three Rs" anymore is the primary
reason.
\_ And now people are losing their houses because they can't
afford the property tax that's subsidizing the people who
are benefitting from prop 13. Irony is delicious. Munch.
\_ The problem with prop 13 is that while it was
motivated by a need to protect a primary residence
from fluctuations in the real estate market, it
was written to include *all* property. For humans,
frozen contribution rates on a primary residence
are a good way to apportion the total tax burden
over the life of the taxpayer. For coporations and
other entities that never die, Prop 13 is a nightmare
that has only just started crushing our economy.
\_ Actually it's been crushing it a while. Each
economic downturn just emphasizes it. When the
economy recovers, it'll be forgotten again. After
you finish the cookie, you'll feel right as rain.
\_ Can someone explain what prop13 is?
\_ Quickie version: In 1978, property taxes
assessed according to 1976 prices with a max
+2% change until prop sold. Then it's
reassessed and taxed at current price. Note 2%
is below COLA and certainly way below real
estate increase. Plus, to raise taxes takes
2/3 vote of the legistlature.
\_ Only because we learned the term "double
digit inflation" under Jimmy Carter. In any
sane world, the COLA would be about 2%.
\_ Communist!
\_ Ford invented double digit inflation.
Carter just carried on the tradition.
\_ Ford? Oh pleeeeeaaaaase. It's the
only thing the news talked about for
his entire term. Oh yeah, that and
the Hostage Crisis. |
| 2003/5/19-20 [Recreation/Travel/LasVegas, Academia/GradSchool] UID:28486 Activity:very high |
5/19 I know most people here are alumni. Anybody know new grads graduating
this year? I'm wondering how they're doing in terms of job search.
CS/EECS grads I mean. Are people moving back home with their parents
and spending their time goofing off?
\_ The smart ones won't be goofing off.
\_ We used to call it meditating.
\_ Do you like to meditate with your left hand or your right?
\_ Or your own mouth?
\_ Ew.
\_ It took me about 6-7 months to find a job. - 2002 grad
\_ same here.
\_ tobin do you live across the street from Sigma Kappa?
how many tobins can there be in this world? - danh
\_ clearly we need more H1-B people, it should have taken you a year
\_ no, he should've worked at McD's serving H1b's on their once
a week lunch break.
\_ working at CERN for awhile. Then... the World! -- tobin (2003 grad)
\_ So you plan to retire from CERN, eh?
\_ Nobody retires from CERN. They are retired. -John
\_ Good point.
\_ I'm moving back home and looking for a job - sp 2003 grad
\_ Where's that? India?
\_ New grad hiring is fairly limited right now. We generally
won't look at a new grad seriously unless they built something
as a special project or outside of class. The ones that just
listen to lectures and do their homework aren't typically
productive enough to bother with. -hiring manager
\_ heh, when the economy turns around you'll be here begging for
the ones who 'almost' graduated. --less obnoxious hm
\_ graduation, have yet to find a job, will be working on a
research project part time this summer while looking for
employment, and yes, I will be moving back home. --darin
\_ St. Louis? Are there jobs there?
\_ Most of the guys who interned in my group last summer have
all found jobs. I'm trying to set the last few stragglers
up before the end of the summer. They are all moving back
home.
\_ How does moving back home help you find a job? To save money?
Unless your parents live in San Jose, you're stting yourself up
for a lifetime of shitty jobs and zero social life.
\_ San Jose, wooohoo! Party! Why would you hold up San Jose
as a good place for a social life?
\_ i think he is implying there are decent jobs in the san
jose area
\_ Also, housing is so expensive, there's less social stigma
attached to living with your parents.
\_ Because in SJ you might actually *get* *a* *job* unlike
living with your parents in BFE trying to get PC support
gigs at the local dentist and flower shop. SJ is also
close enough to the rest of the BA that you can have any
social life you like and frankly with so many other laid
off people in the area, you'll have plenty of people to
hang out with. What's *your* plan for where these kids
should hang out while job hunting and trying not to be
forgotten by life?
\_ Honestly? I think they are spoiled brats who should
learn to fend for themselves. There are plenty of
jobs out there, just not high-paying, cushy, high-
status jobs like these children of the upper middle
class believe is their birthright. Move to Las Vegas
if you want a job. I never hung to my mother's apron
strings after I left home at 17.
\_ Getting a low paying job now will cost hundreds of
thousands over the course of their careers....
\_ Not learning self-reliance costs much more. |
| 2003/5/19 [Politics/Domestic/California, Politics/Foreign/Asia/Japan] UID:28487 Activity:high |
5/19 Here's one vote for extermination of the human race. Its obvious
that we just can't live up to the standards set by the CSUA motd,
so we're better off with universal suicide. Who knows, maybe
evolution will produce an intelligent race less concerned with
narcissism and self-aggrandizement.
\_ Tch, tch... Where were you during the nuke war fantasies of the
early 80's? Po' chile, missed out on it?
\_ They weren't fantasies. The world was almost destroyed several
times from the mid 60's until The Wall fell.
\_ Compare and contrast that to Sodans almost getting laid.
\_ Another time coming up with the threats from North Korea.
\_ NK? Piffle. That's not world destruction. At worst,
they'll hit SK or Japan once or twice. Their odds of
hitting SD/LA/SF are about zero given that they've never
tested anything with that range and don't claim it. After
the maybe nuke Japan/SK, we launch and wipe them off the
planet, everyone sheds a tear, makes a pretty speech at
the UN, life goes on for the other 6+ billion people. |
| 2003/5/19 [Politics/Domestic/President/Bush] UID:28488 Activity:nil |
5/19 Goodbye, Ari Fleischer. You managed to keep a straight face for
so long.
\_ URL? Given a choice I'd rather be Ari than do the same job for BC.
\_ Heh, I'd've been fired if I'd been the spokesman for Bill:
"I'm sorry, the President has nothing to say about the
allegations regarding Monica Lewinsky. I, on the other
hand, have plenty to say: C'mon, folks, it was a blowjob!
Get over it!"
\_ Probably not the right spin BC was looking for but it'd be
funny as hell if it got on the air.
\_ http://www.csua.org/u/2z7 |
| 2003/5/19 [Uncategorized] UID:28489 Activity:nil |
5/19 Civic, u wished u 0wn3d 1:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2415052740
\_ A non-working, non-street legal 73k mile '93 civic for $11k? I'd
need a lobotomy first. Is that included in the $11k some sucker
bid for this?
\_ Yucks! |
| 2003/5/19-20 [Computer/SW/Security, Politics/Domestic/SocialSecurity] UID:28490 Activity:nil |
5/19 My refinance showed someone (LA) is using my SSN. What can I do?
Who do I report this to? This is a serious question. thx.
\_ First contact the police. One of the things they will do is
give you a form with a lot of different crdit agencies to
contact. Contact all major credit card companies as well.
Although you can get a free credit check if you suspect fraud
you get the wimpy version, so you want to shell out 25 bucks
for the full one you can double check. Hell, you probably want
to do it every couple of months for the next half year or so.
Yes it is a bitch, I've been there before, but it the long
run things got corrected and the person stopped using my SSN.
\_ Call your local SS office. They will give you the number of the SS
Inspector General. That office handles stuff having to do with SS
fraud and criminal activity.
\_ And the IRS. When you contact the three credit agencies,
ask to put a freeze or a fraud report on your listings.
\_ See if you can get an address and kill them. |
| 2003/5/19-20 [Health, Health/Men] UID:28491 Activity:high |
5/19 Exercise advice sought: If I am just trying to tone up a little
can I do something like 400-500 curls with 10lbs dumbells or will
that little weight not do anything? Better to do half as many
with 20lbs? I am a small stature person.
\_ Hi, small stature person!
\_ If you want to bulk up, do enough weight so that you can just
barely do 3 sets of 12. If you just want toning, take yoga.
\_ 2nded. You'll get results more quickly this way, and at 20lbs
you need not fear of turning into that enormous guy at the gym
with hairy shoulders. Just make sure your form is good if
you're just starting off w/ weights.
\_ tone != bulk. If you want tone and definition, you do want more
reps with lower weight. Try 3-5 sets of 15-20 reps. More reps
per set if you like.
\_ That is why I asked if 400x10lbs or 200x20lbs would be
better.
\_ You should never need to do 400 or even 200 reps (I hope
you're just giving exagerrated numbers for effect). The
above poster is right... find a weight where you can just
barely do 20 or even 25 reps and work from there. Oh, and
something that gets lost in the equation of toning/bulking:
diet. You can have the perfect workouts, with the ideal
weights, sets, reps, exercises, form, etc., but it won't
that the hard way (yes, I've been improvement once I cut
down on the french fries)
make a difference until you start eating right. I learned
that the hard way (yes, I've seen improvement after I cut
out the fast food)
\_ Don't listen to these people who haven't tried it! I would
recommend 800-1000 curls with 5 lbs, I have had very
effective results with that. Try it for yourself!
\_ Sounds like a recipie for tendonitis. Curls, like most
weight work, isolates a particular muscle group. Unlike
exercizes that impact a larger number of muscles, weight
work is not suitable for rep counts. There is debate over
whether the 30-rep sets are safe. Even the high-rep clique
at the gym would agree that 800 is crazy.
\- I dont claim to have a particularly sane exercise program
but some comments: 1. first i think doing a few hundred
curls of low weight should be ok. it is probably like using
a rowing machine for 20-30 min. 2. if you goal is tone and
general fitness with a low target and without joining a gym
or buying pricey equipment, then i'd just run like 3miles
3-4 times a week. that moves large muscles unlike the curl
program and will probably burn more calories and get your
mtabolism up and your fat level down. if you ear a reasonable
mtabolism up and your fat level down. if you eat a reasonable
amount of protein, it is easy to bulk up arms for men. legs
are a lot more work. --psb
\_ The problem is that with any serious weight and crazy high
repetitions, it's very possible to give yourself a RSI. This
is especially true if you have no idea what you're doing and
have little or no idea of good form. This is a very hard
lesson to learn by injuring yourself.
\_ Isometrics, son. It's all about isometrics.
\_ I don't think you ever need to worry about bulking up
unintentionally. If it was that easy to get big, you wouldn't
see people spending 24x7 in the gym, drinking protein shakes,
taking supplements, and reading muscle magazines. Start with
a standard excercise routine which you can find in any excercise
book or web page and if you notice yourself getting "too big",
cut back on the weight and increase your reps/sets by 15%. -emin
\_ Here's a question. Why do any of this? Simply to look better? I
can think of a dozen kinds of exercise that will keep you in shape
and certainly sound more enjoyable than endless reps in a gym or
some room in one's house. I suppose I need to give partha credit for
hinting at the same point. I swim about a mile a day and I'll bet,
if nothing else, I have more interesting things to look at. :)
\- i sort of got addicted to swimming for a while and was swimming
maybe 10-12 miles a week. i dont think swimming gets you very
far unless you have a lot of discipline [i.e. you do the
equivalent of running intervals] or you combine with weights.
if you do the equivalent of a slow jog in the pool, it doesnt
get you very far. if i am totally out of shape then i start
my aerobic conditioning by swimming, since it's hard to get
motvated to run if you cant even run 2 miles. but otherwise
swimming alone to me is like exercise bike or walking ... for
old people or people who for some other reason, e.g. 50lbs
overweight, cant run or something like that. --psb |
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