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| 2005/3/25 [Politics/Domestic, Politics/Foreign/Europe] UID:36867 Activity:moderate |
3/24 I keep hearing the news pronounce the name Schiavo as shy-vo
instead of ski-avo (like the word for slave). Which is the
correct pronounciation?
\_ Should I say "Al Kay-Da" or "Al Kay-Ee-Da"? Should I say
"Bin Lah-Den" or "Bin Lay-Den"? I really want to get it right
because I don't want to disrespect them or anything. -tom
because I don't want to disrespect them or anything.
\_ Actually, it's Ahl Qah-ee-da. "Q" is more guttural than the
English "K".
\_ In the language of origin (Italian), it's "ski-avo".
\_ True. In Italy bruschetta is pronounced brusketta but in the
US it is almost universally pronounced brushetta.
\_ The news pronunciation is the way the family pronounces it.
\_ "zom-be" |
| 2005/3/25-28 [Computer/SW/Security] UID:36868 Activity:nil |
3/24 Where can I dispose of a dead CRT for free? Office Depot had a free
service, but it looks like it's over. Thanks. -slow
\_ http://csua.com/?entry=25428
\_ In a dumpster. Seriously. Otherwise, wait for one of those
days where you can dispose of toxics for free. I favor a random
dumpster, though. Yes, I have done that.
\_ Free on Fridays at http://www.accrc.org |
| 2005/3/25-28 [Uncategorized] UID:36869 Activity:nil |
3/24 T. Rex soft tissue found:
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/7285683
\_ CLONE THE BITCH! They can always replace the missing bits with
frog DNA or something. |
| 2005/3/25 [Recreation/Food, Computer/SW/Unix] UID:36870 Activity:high |
3/24 Anyone else in the mood for some Wendy's chili?
\_ Yes, but I can't put my finger on why...
\_ The quality of Wendy's finger foods is well known.
\_ You've got to hand it to them: they make a decent meal. -gm
\_ I hear the tip is included in the price of the meal -eric
\_ Do you have a point?
\_ It's finger lickin good.
\_ This is a real nail-biter.
\_ I bet you think you're cute(icle).
\_ Oh, stop carpaling.
\_ Do you expect us just to knuckle under?
\_ Oh, give it a wrist already. -gm |
| 2005/3/25 [Politics/Domestic/Immigration] UID:36871 Activity:nil |
3/25 Doing the jobs Americans won't do
FAA licensed 5 arrested at TIMCO - airplane mechanics!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1370361/posts |
| 2005/3/25-29 [Computer/SW/Languages/Perl] UID:36872 Activity:nil |
3/25 In Perl, how do I specify a SIGHUP and SIGKILL handler? I want to
clean up stuff when I press CTRL-C on my Perl script. -ok thx
\_ RTFM. Look for %SIG in "man perlipc"
\_ STFW: http://www.unix.org.ua/orelly/perl/cookbook/ch16_16.htm
\_ Above trolls should STFU.
\_ Methinks you need to STFW for the definition of "troll"
\_ ROFL LOL, WTF!? |
| 2005/3/25-29 [Politics/Domestic/Crime] UID:36874 Activity:moderate |
3/25 US military deserters seek refugee status in Canada.
http://csua.org/u/bhq
I'm basically just posting this article to reference this awesome
quote by the deserters' lawyer:
"We don't believe that people should be imprisoned for doing what
they believe is illegal."
\_ I think what the lawyer meant was "... for NOT doing what ...".
\_ I figured you should just replace 'illegal' with 'right.'
\_ This is all kinds of irrelevant, but if I think carefully
about the original statement I agree with it. If
someone does something they think is illegal, but it's not,
then no, they should not be imprisoned.
But I think the first responder was right, the lawyer meant
"for NOT doing".
\_ That's not how criminal law works. People are tried
and convicted for doing something which they think
is illegal but it is not for some time now. The
mens rea is sometimes more important than the actus
rea in certain crimes according to some courts and
commentators. The concept here is that we wish to
deter criminal intentions for such crimes as
conspiracy.
\_ Conspriacy requires an agreement, an overt
act and the mens rea to join an unlawful
scheme. The unlawful scheme part is impt.
Simply thinking that what you are doing is
illegal is not enough. It has to be unlawful.
Ex. If you didn't know that the 21st amd
had been passed, but you concocted a scheme
w/ your buddies to smuggle booze from Canada
into the US thinking that you were breaking
law, it wouldn't be a conspiracy, regardless
of the fact that you thought it was a crime.
FYI, an actus reus is ALWAYS required in
order to get a criminal conviction whereas
there is no constitutional requirement that
a mens rea be shown (See Robinson v CA).
\_ Ah, I see. Because Iraq was an "illegal war."
\_ I agree with a pp that there is nothing wrong w/ the
lawyer's statement. In order to be criminally punished
a person must have violated the law. If a person thinks
that they have broken the law but really they haven't,
it is irrelevant whether the person thought that he was
breaking the law.
\_ No, you're completely wrong. It does matter in crimes of
conspiracy. In fact, it's been ruled in the past that crimes
of conspiracy don't even require that the other parties involved
are agreeing to break the law, only that the defendant believes
he is conspiring to break the law.
\_ I am sorry, but this is just fucking stupid. Not you, the
government for prosecuting people for not breaking the law.
\_ I don't think that you understand how conspiracy works.
\_ Well, you're wrong. I certainly do know how conspiracy
works in general. How it works in your particular
state is another matter.
Conspiracy is an independent crime from subtantive
crimes. What is required for conspiracy is agreement
to an unlawful scheme. Once a party has agreed to an
unlawful scheme, that party is responsible for the
general intent version of any stubstantive crime
committed by all other parties to the scheme.
Note The underlying scheme must be unlawful, if you
and I agree to stop watching FOX news and then you
go off and kill someone, I'm not liable for voluntary
manslaughter even though I thought that not watching
FOX was a crime.
\_ Actually, that's completely wrong. If you actually
went to law school you'd have heard of the "empty
pocket theory" in which a pickpocket can be convicted
of attempt when he tries to pickpocket an empty
jacket. The same applies for conspiracy. It doesn't
take much to charge someone with conspirac.
What you are describing is actually techinically
a conspiracy, however, due to the inherent impossibility
of committing the crime by watching FOX, it is not
conspiracy. Your reasoning for why the above fact pattern
is wrong is simply wrong. If you had actually studied
conspiracy, you'd know about the "voodoo curse" doctrine
in which inherent factual impossibility excuses
conspiracy.
\_ What about what the above person claims? What if you
and I conspire to say, sneak across the Nevada border,
a perfectly legal act, but one that I believe is
unlawful. Can I be prosecuted for conspiracy?
\_ The empty pocket theory mainly relates to attempt is
applicable to factual vs legal impossibility. In
attempt what is being punished is an act that is
close to being a complete crime w/ the mens rea for
that crime. A factual impossibility does not excuse
b/c a crime would have been committed except for an
external circumstance (the cops caught you in time,
the pocket was empty, &c.) A legal impossbility is
different. Consider a plan to steal a laptop from
someone's backpack during class. Let say you sit down
next to the target and you stick your hand in his
bag, but he left his laptop at home. You are guility
of attempted larceny. However, let's say that you
both have the same sort of backpack and you happen to
reach into your own backpack. Even if the cops slap
the cuffs on you right at that point, you are not
guilty of an attempted crime b/c stealing from
yourself (regardless of the mens rea) is a legal
impossibility.
WRT "voodoo", if you conspire to kill someone,
and one of you happens to use voodoo and the
other uses a gun, you are both still guilty
of the conspiracy to commit murder. However,
if you conspire to kill someone only via
voodoo you are not guilty of the conspriacy
b/c killing via voodoo is not a crime.
(I believe you are referring to the Ivy case,
in which the brothers did time for trying to
kill a judge via a voodoo hex).
BTW, I got a decent grade in crim law.
However, if you and I agree to put up a web site that
lists all the locations of police speed traps in real
time so that people can avoid speeding tickets, a
conspiracy exists b/c the object of our conspiracy was
to help ppl exceed the speed limit which is unlawful.
Now if you kill someone, I will be liable for VMS.
\_ CALLAHAN: Hypothetical situation, huh? All right, I'm
standing on the street corner and Mrs. Grey here comes up
and propositions me... that if I come home with her, for
five dollars she'll put on an exhibition with a Shetland
pony.
MRS. GREY: If this is your idea of humor, Inspector...
BOARD EXAMINER: All right, what are you trying to do here,
Callahan?
CALLAHAN: I'm just trying to find out if anybody in this
room knows what the hell law's being broken... besides
cruelty to animals.
\_ What does this have to do with conspiracy?
\_ It's one of the laws being broken in the hypothetical
situation.
\_ I'm not sure I understand how what you're saying applies to
this case. Desertion is illegal, and I'm pretty sure the
deserters knew it was illegal.
\_ My comment is directed at statement itself w/o regard
to the context. I agree that in the context of the
desertion, the statement makes no sense.
\_ Weren't there a bunch of CO cases during Gulf War I that rested on
the argument that the US military service oath required you to
'defend the Constitution...' (yeah, yeah, I know, that whole
'following orders' thing. -John |
| 2005/3/25 [Finance/Investment] UID:36875 Activity:low |
3/25 Is there any disadvantage to placing a limit order when the market is
closed vs. waiting for it to open?
\_ The only disadvantage is that news which occurs before the market
opens could hurt you; if the stock gaps up or down on the open you
could wind up missing a transaction, or getting the transaction
filled at a less than optimal price. -tom |
| 2005/3/25 [Academia/Berkeley, Politics/Domestic/Crime] UID:36876 Activity:high |
3/25 Ward Churchill is coming to Berkeley!
http://tinyurl.com/6prrz (resipsaloquitor.blogspot.com)
\_ i think he was at codys a few weeks ago, no one died. - danh
\_ That's unfortunate. -alexf
\_ Do you really oppose academic freedom of speech? -ausman
\_ Yes. I realize it's extremely difficult to judge such any
particular case where the "academic freedom of speech"
argument is invoked, but I do believe there ought to be
bounds on the use of the academic pulpit to advocate
terrorism or other forms of utterly unjustifiable, by any
remotely rational argument, violence. How to adjudicate
such cases is a different problem, and I (or anyone else,
it seems) do not know of a complete answer. But that does
_not_, in my mind, render the behavior immediately immune
from justice. -alexf
\_ A lot of idiocy could be prevented if these bullshit
"studies" departments were eliminated. The arguement
that because "ethnic studies" or "african american
studies" are new warrants new departments is specious.
When someone invents a new field of math, they are
still in the math department, and still have to prove
to other mathematicians that they're doing real work
in order to get tenure. Yet these people in ethnic
studies operate with no real peer review outside their
tiny, politically charged world. I don't think this
asshole would have gotten tenure in a history department
at a school like CU.
\_ Sure, because history departments are dominated by
the elite white man genocidal oppressors and subject
to their agenda!
\_ I'm not sure how expressing disappointment or criticism of
an individual whose views one disagrees with can be
characterized as ``opposition to academic freedom of
speech.'' Perhaps you could enlighten the rest of us?
Unless, of course, you're the one opposed to academic
freedom of speech. -dans
\_ Do you believe that murder is speech? Alex said that
it is unfortunately no one died. I think it would be
it is unfortunate no one died. I think it would be
great if a bunch of protestors showed up to express
disagreement. I think it would be a tragedy if someone
was killed over it. -ausman
\_ Ah, I parsed that as ``That's unfortunate [that
Churchill was at codys a few weeks ago].'' It
appears you parsed it as ``That's unfrotunate
[nobody died attending Churchill's appearance at
codys a few weeks ago].'' Eh. What can I say,
natural language parsing is a bitch. I assumed the
former because I know alexf to be a generally
reasonable individual who is not prone to making
part-serious statements like ``So-and-so needs
killing.'' And of course I don't think murder is
speech. Don't be a git, who do you think I am, Tim
May? -dans
\_ Interesting thread, guys. Somewhat contrary to
dans's assessment, I did _not_ mean to say it's
unfortunate that he was at Cody's, but rather
that no one died. However the statement, need
this be clarified, was meant as humorous
hyperbole, although I do think the world would be
an appreciably better place if Ward Churchill did
not exist. -alexf
\_ I was amused. You get a gold star. -dans |
| 2005/3/25 [Computer/SW/OS/OsX] UID:36877 Activity:high |
3/25 Anyone who uses Mac OS X and Firefox, how can you map
CMD-click into "Open window in new tab in the BACKGROUND."
Current behavior opens the tab in the foreground, which is very
annoying.
\_ In Preferences->Advanced->Tabbed Browsing, uncheck the option
labeled `Select new tabs opened from links.' I use a Mac for my
primary machine so I may be mistaken about this, but I'm pretty
sure this is the same thing you would do to get Firefox to behave
in this manner on any other OS. -dans |
| 2005/3/25 [Reference/RealEstate] UID:36878 Activity:kinda low |
3/25 http://csua.org/u/bhu [nytimes.com] More on the housing bubble, comparing it to dot com bubble. From the article: "South Florida," he said, "is working off of a totally new economic model than any of us have ever experienced in the past." Sound familiar? \_ Yay, it's Sour Grapes Housing Guy! Thank you for your brilliant insight! -tom \_ Oh, no. Thank you for *your* brilliant insight, Mr. Pyramid Scam! \_ And just like the dot-com bust, for some reason I still haven't gotten into this game. (Dot-com: Bought some shares in Yahoo! with plans to sell it for a 50% profit several months later.) Real estate: Sold my $700K house with plans to come back several years later to buy another one for $500K). Real estate: Sold my $700K house with plans to move back into the same neighborhood several years later for $500K). \_ Actually it sounds like you have gotten into it and out of it. |
| 2005/3/25-27 [Politics/Domestic] UID:36879 Activity:nil |
3/25 I'm a moderate because Democrats are socialists and Republicans
are greedy corporate capitalists. I am a little Chinese.
-moderate and proud of it
\_ Hey, do you have a little Chinese in you? Would you like some?
\_ I know a little German. See, he's right over there! |
| 2005/3/25-28 [Consumer/PDA] UID:36880 Activity:kinda low |
3/25 Getting a blackberry for work. Is one provider better than
another? If so which is best.
\_ Do any Blackberries include a camera? I'm planning to replace my
Treo 600 in the near future, and am debating between a Treo 650
because the screen kicks ass and the camera does not suck (but
email handling is still not anywhere near up to snuff) and a
Blackberry for email support that does not suck. -dans
\_ Get the Treo 650. It is everything that a phone and
a pda should be.
\_ I second that. The Treo 650 is outstanding. -- peterl
\_ What's the status of bluetooth support? That was the
other major feature my 600 lacks, and it would be rad to
be able to sync wirelessly (plus bluejacking amusement to
be had). I recall that it wasn't enabled because it
wasn't stable when the 650 first shipped. -dans
\_ Bluetooth is enabled and works fine on my
treo 650 (cingular). I have heard that there
were some problems w/ the sprint version
initially, but a software updated released
last week supposedly fixed those issues.
\_ does it have 80211 wlan capability? cause a pda should.
\_ I have heard that you will be able to get a 802.11
sd card for the treo this summer. If you have the
unlimited data plan there isn't really a need for
802.11.
\_ As a Treo 600 user with an unlimited data plan, I beg
to differ. Browsing the net on a Treo 600 is kind of
like browsing the net on a 9600 baud modem. Useful in
a pinch, but painfully slow because modern web
designers design web pages for people browsing with
modern browsers and broadband connections. So I could
see why it would be nice to have 802.11 in the event
that you are near a WiFi hotspot. That said, unlike
the PP, I don't think its a necessity. -dans
\_ I'm not sure (I don't have a data plan), but
friends w/ data plans tell me that the data
transfer on the 650 is MUCH faster than on
the 600 (supposedly btwn 128-384Kbps). |
| 2005/3/25-26 [Reference/RealEstate] UID:36881 Activity:moderate |
3/25 Poll, in your deep desire, you wish housing would do the following.
Also, put a number to indicate the number of houses you have:
\_ pop the bubble: 0
\_ pop the bubble: 000
\_ I want interest rates to go up to around 8 so there isn't so much
easy money flying around. I want to see people get burned on their
$500k, no-money-down-interest-only-loan'd shitty condos and
desert houses in arizona where water restricts growth more than
the desert land area.
\_ I'm the bitter housing guy and I'll tell you why. I'm a strong
believer in meritocracy. Take the dot-com for example. Some
people got rich just because they happened to get in and out at
the right time, regardless of how much good work they've
contributed to the society. That's not meritocracy, that is
lotteritocracy. Life is already random as it is, and when you
have people making 2X in speculative Arizona housing, that just
feeds on lotteritocracy. Is that the kind of message we want to
give to our children, that hard work and contribution to society
is secondary to just getting lucky?
\_ It is very rare that anyone makes money investing (whether in
stocks or real estate) because they got lucky. People who
don't know what they're doing (who haven't put in the work to
learn about investing) get fleeced. -tom
\_ You're an idiot.
\_ keeps going up: 2
\_ and I'm considering buying a small apartment complex
\_ You are obviously a landlord in SF
\_ The more you own, the more you get to own. I love
this country. -pp
\_ Decline 10% and remain flat for a few years: 0
\_ Same as him: 1 duplex
\_ Fall by 50% so that I can buy more: 1
\_ Crash by 70% so that I can buy 5 houses. I sold my house at a
very nice profit 1 yr ago. Local market is down about 10 pct
since then. No houses now.
\_ do you live in vegas? where has the market fallen? |
| 2005/3/25-26 [Politics/Domestic/Abortion, Politics/Domestic/President/Bush] UID:36882 Activity:kinda low |
3/25 Why is it that the pro-life crowd is so worked up over the
Schivao case, but can't be bothered with what happened in
Texas because of a law signed by Mr Pro Life himself, Bush
Jr? Despite the pleas of his mother, a hospital pulled the
plug on a six month old boy because they were unable to pay
for treatment, a move made possible by the law Bush signed
while governor of Texas.
\_ Because they're hypocrites. Yes, it's that simple.
\_ Those so-called pro-life people should concentrate their energy on
children in this world who are really dying from hunger, rather
on one individual who has less than 1% chance of recovery.
\- add "malaria, cholera, TB". Amen. --psb
\_ Malaria would be largely solved if we simply used DDT
in developing nations.
\- Fair enough. Significant progress can be made on
each of the above for modest policy reforms and
financial outlays. In contrast to AIDS, which
appears to be a hard problem. --psb
\_ Sheesh. You all know, just like the ACLU, they're
really interested in precedent.
\_ I guess technically "less than 1%" is correct. The correct
number is 0. Large parts of her cortex are gone.
\_ Eh, even so, it's not quite 0. People have gotten along
with very low percentages of their brains. There are a
few recorded "miracle" cases.
\_ And yet, with Bush's plan for Medicaid, more people
will be denied life support based on a corporate profit
assessment, instead of a medical one. Life is important,
but the dollar is fucking *sacred*!
\_ I work with medical images all the time, and I have seen no
serious proof of this. Certainly not lately. Furthremore,
the more I work with doctors, the more I distrust them. They
can be sloppy and capricious when lives other than their own
are one the line. -emarkp
\_ http://csua.org/u/bi0
Some commentary on the medical issues, and a link to
another site that has actual cat scans. There are large
portions of her head filled with fluid where her brain
used to be. It isn't a question of interpretation.
\_ Not very useful. It's just a reassertion. A CT (CAT)
scan is almost unusable for distinguishing structure in
the brain. An MRI is far far better. Furthermore, the
one tiny CT image I've seen is from years ago, and we
don't actually know the state of her brain today.
-emarkp
\_ Clearly you did not read anything from that link,
since it addresses precisely the red herrings that
you are spouting.
\_ No, it doesn't. It simply reasserts that the
cerebral cortex is gone. I disagree with that
assertion (that is, I haven't seen enough evidence
to conclude the same thing). How much time have
you spent looking at medical images of the brain?
-emarkp
\_ OK Dr. Ping, what is the alternative
explanation for what appears to be a large
fluid-filled area where her cerebral cortex
used to be?
\_ Without seeing the entire data set, I can't
answer that. The single small grainy image
I've seen isn't enough determine the
condition of the entire cerebral cortex.
I've worked with enough doctors that I don't
trust one analysis when others have
disagreed. Oh, and sign your name. -emarkp
\_ Hey guys, I think emarkp's point is that
not all of the cerebral cortex may be
gone, and what's left may be sufficient
to qualify as "life", especially if the
leftover brain takes on a heavy load.
\_ If that's his point, he should say so.
So far all he's provided is red
herrings that avoid the central point.
\_ You failed to answer the question or
provide any useful insight. Oh, and fuck
you. |
| 2005/3/25-31 [Computer/SW/Security, Computer/SW/Unix] UID:36883 Activity:moderate |
3/25 My team (Yahoo! login/registration/access) has several
software engineer positions open at all experience levels. -atom
\_ I need a part time job, please give me a flexible part time
job because school sucks. -kchang
\_ How about fucking change the default login to be secure login??
Every other fucking website in the world uses secure login. Why
does Yahoo insist on using non-secure login as default????!!!
\_ Because it is secure, dufus. Assuming you have javascript
enabled anyway. They issue a random challenge string that
you answer by hashing together your password and the challenge.
\_ Oh wow, we don't really need SSL don't we?
\_ Oh wow, we don't really need SSL I guess.
\_ Wow, no, it's needed for some things.
\_ Why doesn't yahoo use SSL login by default?
\_ Well, the obvious reason is they don't want to buy
hardware that can handle craploads of SSL connections,
which is a lot more expensive than the hashing scheme.
\_ Aren't you in LA? |
| 2005/3/25-28 [Recreation/Food] UID:36884 Activity:nil |
3/25 I'm so glad Wendy's lost business as a result of their FINGER food.
They donate 91% to Republicans ($200,000). And yes I boycott Wal-Mart
and Dell as well.
\_ And they support cannibalism. |
| 2005/3/25-26 [Recreation/Dating] UID:36885 Activity:moderate |
3/25 Look what bitches will do to you:
http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/03/25/divorce.settlement.ap/index.html
\_ BDG is that you?
\_ No, just someone that can't understand why in this case
the wife was owed anything, since she cheated on him.
\_ No fault divorce. She actually got less than 50% of
assets, which is less than she asked for. It's
interesting that she was married when they first
met. Once a cheating slut, always a cheating slut.
\_ Is that what a "no fault divorce" means, that
no matter who does what, each person is entitled
to half of the assets? Is California a no fault
divorce state?
\_ No fault divorce means you can get a divorce
for any reason. Your spouse is always
entitled to 50% of the assets you acquired
while married, even if she fucks another guy
and lives with him after dumping you.
\_ Can this be overridden by a prenuptial
agreement, or does it depend on the state?
Also, it occurs to me that in this example,
no-fault divorce would benefit the gold-
digging bitch. -John
\_ Actually the above is not entirely
correct. It is correct in a community
property no-fault jx (AZ, CA, ID, LA,
NV, NM, TX, WA, WI AFAIK). The idea
is that all earnings during the marriage
are considered gifts to the "community"
and are held in common. When the
marraige is dissolved, the property
held in common is divided equally w/o
considering who made the contribution.
To some extent this can be overridden
by a pre-nup provided that you agree
to keep all prop earned by a given
party separate from the community.
There are difficulties in terms of
property and chattels purchased
during the marriage.
The best way around this is to stick
pre-marital assets into a trust and
then agree that all or part of your
earnings are gifted to the trust and
to use the trust to buy the stuff
you want.
\_ That's why you should be careful who
you marry - especially if you have
assets. It works both ways, too. I know
a wealthy widow (not that old) who will not
date men with less wealth than she has,
because there are skanky men, too.
\_ Bitches are hustlers too, I thought you knew, I thought you knew.
-dans |
| 2005/3/25-26 [Politics/Domestic/Abortion, Politics/Domestic/Crime] UID:36886 Activity:nil |
3/25 Michael Schiavo lawyer on board of directors of Terri's hospice
http://www.canadafreepress.com/2005/cover032605.htm
\_ Yep. And she shouldn't have been put there in the first place since
residents in a hospice are supposed to be terminally ill. |
| 2005/3/25-26 [Politics/Foreign/Asia/China] UID:36887 Activity:high |
3/25 Is Ping an Asian last name?
\_ No. But it is a common Chinese first name. -emarkp
\-YMWTS: The Story of Ping --psb
\_ Do you mean "The Story About Ping"? Read an old beat-up copy
when I was a child. Have a nice new copy that I read to my
kids. -emarkp
\- I mean the "insightful and intuitive explanation of one of
Unix's most venerable networking utilities ... The book
describes networking in terms even a child could understand,
choosing to anthropomorphize the underlying packet struc-
ture." --psb
\_ Yes I found http://yyz.us/ping.shtml Same book. -emarkp
\_ Yes, it is one of the 100 Chinese last names.
http://www.chinapage.com/biography/lastname.html , 6 rows down, 2nd from the right.
http://www.chinapage.com/biography/lastname.html
6 rows down, 2nd from the right.
\_ So is there a Chinese man named Pong Ping?
\- No, but there are 500k Chinese names Lo Fat, and sloda
has its own Hi Fat Pet. |
| 2005/3/25 [Uncategorized] UID:36888 Activity:moderate |
3/26 i feel like asking congress to trim a few lines off of the motd.
\_ Don't make me file an appeal to the USSC, punk. The motd has a
right to exist in its current state.
\_ Make sure they buy you a calendar, too! |
| 2005/3/25-29 [Reference/Tax] UID:36889 Activity:kinda low |
3/25 Why the hell doesn't Wal-Mart pay to have its street widened?
Spending $37 million of taxpayer dollars seems stupid when
Wal-Mart can easily afford it.
\_ Is this a troll? They don't do it because it's not profitable.
\_ Why pay for it if the government will. sounds like sound
business fundamentals.
\_ No shit. Why is the government subsidizing Wal-Mart?
\_ Because of the income that Wal-Mart promises. Big box
stores pay a nice bit of property taxes and sales tax.
Plus an anchor store like WalMart attracts other businesses.
There are minuses too. It's all POV.
\_ it also decimates nearby businesses and pays
its humans such a low wage that they need to go on\
on public assistance.
its humans such a low wage that they need to go
on public assistance.
\_ Funny, wasn't the the whole merchant/road thing one of the main
examples in The Wealth of Nations? -John
\_ url?
\_ It's well known that Wal-Mart is especially adept at sucking
every freebie from the government it possibly can, in addition to
paying their employees so little they have to rely on government
services. |
| 2005/3/25-29 [Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Iraq] UID:36890 Activity:nil |
3/25 Insurgents looking for a way out:
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/7b2a3b4e-9d4e-11d9-a227-00000e2511c8.html
\_ Amnesty!
\_ Stella!
\_ Isn't that basically what the whole election thing was about? Give
them a way to save face without strengthening them (the way Israel
inadverdently did with Hizbollah when it pulled out of Lebanon--
wise move, maybe the execution could have been better)? I guess
the goal right now is to alienate the real hardcore ones from the
casual "oh-look-it's-an-rpg-7-in-my-closet-now-how-did-that-get-
there?" types... -John |
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