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4/7 Dear homeowners in Canada, here is a guide for repairs:
http://www.allaroundthehouse.com/lib.repr.htm
And here's one for Americans:
http://www.stargroup.com/ResidentialInspections.htm?costs.htm~mainFrame |
| 2005/4/8 [Health/Disease/General] UID:37113 Activity:kinda low |
4/8 bongs and vaporizers give you lung cancer
http://my.marijuana.com/pipestudy.php3
\_ Next thing they will say is that oral sex does
too..
\_ I better stock up on bran |
| 2005/4/8-9 [Reference/Law/Court, Computer/Rants] UID:37114 Activity:moderate |
4/7 Yay outsourcing! Indian call center employees use customer banking
information to steal $350,000.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/msid-1070986,curpg-1.cms
\_ I'm sure that would never happen in the U.S. -tom
\_ Yeah, but the money would be easier to recover.
\_ In the Bay Area there was recently a couple of people who
worked for BofA who embezzled millions over the years.
They're going to jail, but $5 million is still unaccounted
for, and very little of the money was recovered.
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/03/15/BAG73BPFIJ1.DTL
http://tinyurl.com/69dq9 (sfgate.com)
-tom
\_ Any theft that goes 5 years undetected will be hard to
recover. If they were busted after a month like the
Indians I bet most of the money would be found.
\_ Maybe if we'd outsourced to India they would have been
caught faster. -tom
\_ are you actually pro-outsourcing or just poking
holes in her arguments?
\_ I am neutral on outsourcing; I think blaming
embezzlement on outsourcing is ridiculous. -tom
\_ Not necessarily. Trusting sensitive data to
a 3rd world country is a problematic concept
\- apparetly it is also problematic to
trust ucb.
in itself. The above data point does not prove
it either way, nor does your counterpoint,
but your assertion is plainly just dumb.
\_ There was a previous case where a local
hospital outsourced their medical
transcription to some company, who
outsourced it to another company, who
outsourced it to India, and then stopped
paying their employees, who threatened the
hospital with publicizing medical records
unless she got paid. While that could
still happen in the US, there's *way* less
recourse when the person is in another
country with a different set of laws.
\- two words: "union carbide"
\_ While that's a local downside of
outsourcing, they got to run the
plant cheaply and with lax safety
procedures, and then ended up paying
way less in damages than if they
had killed Americans.
\- well ok more than two words:
how do you think some indians
feel about foreigners being
outside the law. anybody have
relatives in canada? what do
they think about congressmen
saying "we cant trust crazy
unsafe canadian pharmaceuticals".
\_ *cough*BEXTRA*cough* |
| 2005/4/8 [Politics/Domestic/Election, Science/GlobalWarming] UID:37115 Activity:high |
4/7 Dear John, please try to take this as something that may give you
insights. You remind me of a hamster I used to keep in my cage.
Everyday it happily runs on the hamster wheel. It is oblivious to
the world outside of his cage, and it doesn't care because it
is well fed and its surrounding all well taken care of. Perhaps you
have never lived in poverty and have never seen a lot of crap poor
and uneducated people deal with in the world, hence you develop
certain [rigid] point of view. I know you're a well educated guy in
a middle/upper-middle family and life seems pretty easy going and
all. But if only you had experienced real econo/social related
hardship in your lifetime, perhaps you'd feel differently. Perhaps
you'd realize how unbalanced wealth, education, and power really
are. You're like my hamster who doesn't see that human history is
full of repeated power struggles and that once again, wealth and
power are to this day continually concentrating in the hands of the
few. Okay, perhaps you don't care. Why should you? You're well fed
and happy and you're too busy running your hamster wheel. Now, go
ahead, give me your best shot and flame me. -John Troll
\_ Is this the same John who lived in that shithole known as CZ?
That doesn't really strike me as the mark of someone who has
everything handed to him.
\_ It's a Dear John Letter. Buh-duh Chah!
\_ With all the raving asshole libertarians on the motd, why the hell
would you single out John, who appears to be pretty moderate on most
issues, and to at least have a sense of humor about his raving?
Are you new to the motd? A lot of people here clearly do not even
believe in the existence of a social contract of any kind, and would
be happy to see the poor die. As near as I can tell John is not one
of those.
\_ The raving asshole libertarians don't sign their names. -tom
\_ Because attempts at well-reasoned responses are more threatening
to the intellectually smug than raving asshole-ness. Welcome
to the motd, son.
\_ Sorry, I'd love to, but I have to catch a plane to Thailand. Feel
free to drop me a mail if you'd like to have a nice debate. (And
FYI, we weren't very well-off when I was growing up, and I do try
to travel around a bit, including to less affluent
places, so I guess I'm aware of what 'hand-to-mouth' means. I
think I've made myself successful through effort (and a bit of
luck, which I accept and appreciate.) Now please do lay out how
believing in accountability and efficiency in how my money is spent
and wanting people to try and work hard and excel in life when they
can means I want to feed the poor to each other? -John
\_ See, as opposed to raving-asshole, John is going to
Thailand, to dance away the night on some full-moon-lit
beach. He's just an asshole that raves..! <3, maxmcc |
| 2005/4/8-9 [Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Iraq] UID:37116 Activity:moderate |
4/8 http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/04/08/iraq.main/index.html Coming soon to a conservative blog / radio show near you! ... at least four videos in the man's camera show roadside bomb attacks on U.S. troops. All had been shot in a manner that suggested the cameraman had prior knowledge of the attacks and had scouted a shooting location in sight of the target. "The individual in question was carrying press credentials from CBS News. ... " a U.S. military statement said Friday. \_ Blogs are the new yellow journalism. \_ Journalists are not military intelligence. They never will be. You can't expect them to be your spies. \_ this is old news to those on conservative forums \_ http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1379990/posts |
| 2005/4/8-9 [Politics/Domestic/Immigration, Politics/Domestic/President] UID:37117 Activity:nil |
4/8 Harvesting Illegals
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=17649 |
| 2005/4/8-10 [Computer/SW/Database] UID:37118 Activity:moderate |
4/8 Anyone reccomend a good mysql programming tutorial that goes
beyond the basic select statements ? I would like to be able
to do a distinct on specific column and then do a count of all
the rows that have the corresponding values. thanks --ramberg
\_ select t.col, count(*) from tble t group by t.col;
\_ thanks. --ramberg
\_ MySQL by Paul DuBois (I have the 1st edition).
\_ Is it the Paul duBois that once worked at Geoworks?
\_ no, our pld is different. -tom
\_ My main memory of pld is of him napping on keyboards
\_ I don't know. I knew a Paul Canavese at Geoworks, but not
Paul DuBois.
\- It may be the same Paul DuBois who wrote the ORA
csh/tcsh book. --psb
\_ Are you the Partha Banerjee in the ORA csh/tcsh book?
\_ You might want to check out O'Reilly's SQL in a Nutshell book.
It's not MySQL specific, but it manages to cover SQL extensively,
and documents how the dialects vary for MySQL, Postgres, Oracale,
and several others. -dans
\_ I checked out the Mysql book via orielly's safari. I
did not see mentioned anything in the way of looping
variables or being able to programmtically specify tables
e.g. database a has a table column that gives you the table
name. Is there a way to search through all of the tables in a
db or is this something people normally program ? I am trying
to figure what I can do on the mysql command line and what I
need to go into perl dbi/dbd to do.
\_ [nb Formatting fixed] So what you're talking about is table
metadata. I know mysql has commands like describe table you
can use to see the schema for a table, look through the
mysql docs on mysql. They're really well written, thorough,
and up to date. I suspect you can get at the table metadata
via the DBI, but don't know how as I have not written
anything where I needed to do so. I'm curious though, what
kind of app are you writing where you don't know database
schema at development time? Frequently querying table
metadata in your program logic seems like an odd way of
doing things to me (I may be wrong here, I'm certainly no
database guru. -dans
8 Harvesting Illegals
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=17649 |
| 2005/4/8-9 [Computer/SW/OS/Linux, Computer/HW] UID:37119 Activity:nil |
4/8 PLEASE HELP! I work in a very linux friendly environment. All of my
servers are Unix/linux. But some of the execs (including the ceo)
use outlook and get a lot of use out of their blackberries. Presently
I am feeling pressure to get an MS Exchange Server!
(blackberry edition). This pressure is very likely to increase.
Is there no linux based solution that well integrates mail and
calendaring (blackberry integration would be nice too, but if I just
had a good mail/calender server, I think I could stem the rising tide.
\_ Are you talking client or server ? If it is client:
you could consider using kontact http://kontact.org
\_ I'm guessing he's asking about the server. How about Novell
Evolution? I don't know how far it has come, but I believe its
goal is to replace Exchange Servers.
\_ The 2/14/05 issue of InfoWorld has a review on linux mail server
migration, where they review software that can serve Outlook
clients. The stuff they reviewed are Gordano Messaging Server,
Novell Suse Linux Openexchange, Scalix, and CommuniGate Pro.
\_ We use Oracle Exchange Server. Unfortunately, I cannot
recommend it. -ausman |
| 2005/4/8-10 [Politics/Domestic/Crime, Politics/Domestic/RepublicanMedia] UID:37120 Activity:very high |
4/8 First Bolemic Lady and now a woman in Georgia is being starved to death. In
this woman's case however the woman's living will is being ignored.
She's not in a persistenet vegitative state nor is she comatose. The
granddaughter says "She has glaucoma and now this heart problem, and
who would want to live with disabilities like these?" She's also
prayed about it apparently and says "Grandmama is old and I think it is
time she went home to Jesus."
\_ She's prayed about it...who are we to doubt the will of Jesus? -tom
\_ Yeah, how would you feel as an atheist if someone prayed for you
and decided you were ready to die? -emarkp
\_ If I was incapable of understanding what was going on, I
don't think I'd feel much about it. Why do you think the
grandmother is an atheist? -tom
\_ I don't know if she's an atheist, but I'm fairly confident
that you are. And the question was directed to you, not
her. -emarkp
\_ I'll ask again, since you obviously have infinite free
time: what the FUCK is your point? Aside from the
fact that stirring up mindless bile among your
fellow social conservatives helps bring about your
theocracy, why are you so concerned with other
people's business? Maybe you should take heed of
the fact that if Christian fundamentalists really do
take over this country, mormons won't fare any better
than us liberal athiests.
\_ The irony here is palpable. I'm not for a
democratic theocracy. I don't like the idea of
people being starved to death when their wishes are
unknown or known to be against dying. -emarkp
\_ Don't argue with him, tom. Bolemic Lady's probably already
a Mormon by now thanks to posthumous baptism. JPII
too most likely too by now.
\_ Well, if you're really not interested in
turning this country into a far-right theocracy,
you should re-think some things. Do you really
not see what's going on here? The media circuses
surrounding various moral issues is to soften up
appointments in May. It is all part of a
so that the far right can force their extremist
have occured daily forever. Doesn't the timing
of this explosion of politics seem just the
tiniest bit odd to you? Think about it. Based
on your other posts, I don't think you are an
evil guy, but I'm afraid that you have decided
to act as a tool of evil by spouting the party
line of the far-right theocrats.
\_ Don't argue with him, tom. Terri's probably
already a Mormon by now thanks to posthumous
baptism. JPII too most likely too by now.
\_ Aaron!?! You're back! And you can't spell
"bulimic". -emarkp
\_ So you admit that your question was nothing but a
red herring? OK, thanks. I already answered your
question for me, and it added absolutely nothing to
the discussion.
I certainly don't see how someone whose brain and
bodily systems are all in an advanced state of
failure can think that Jesus wants her to live. -tom
\_ Um, this subthread was about the Georgia woman, who
doesn't have the problems you describe. -emarkp
\_ yes, she does. -tom
\_ Where does any story say that? -emarkp
\_ Then it'd be like that six month old boy that a hospital
put to death in Texas, despite the pleas from this mother!
CULTURE OF LIFE!!
\_ obTroll: Remind me again how many people Texas knocks
off every year? Oh, that's different. -John
The only online story I can find about
it is here: http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=43688
Please don't dismiss it just because it's worldnetdaily. I'll happily
eat my words if the facts turn out to be different, but I've heard a
phone conversation with Ken Mullinax (the elderly woman's nephew). You
can listen to it free here (windows media unfortunately):
http://www.glennbeck.com/audio/free-audio.shtml (first link)
-emarkp
\_ Stop saying "starved to death". They are not being starved to death.
Their disease process is killing them, not starvation.
\_ What you meant to say was, most neurologists say a PVS patient
doesn't suffer, since they have no perception of pain.
\_ Wow, your ignorance is stunning. What "disease" did "they" have?
-emarkp
\_ OK I was referring to Terri, not your new person.
\_ What "disease" did Terri have? -emarkp
\_ OK I was referring to Bolemic Lady, not your new person.
\_ What "disease" did Bolemic Lady have? -emarkp
\_ Oh I don't know, maybe some shit called necrosis
rotting away in her brain from old events due to
her eating disorder. She was as close to dead
as possible, so don't even try to say she was
healthy. The only reason you and others think
she was functioning was because her eyes were
open in a creepy sort of way, fooling you into
believing she was engaging you. Yeah, the lack
of food tipped the scales finally, but that was
hardly a major blow. Starvation was the least of
her worries.
\_ She only needed food and water to survive, just
like you and me. Also, I've never seen proof of
any eating disorder. It's commonly noted, but
her family disputes that it was ever established.
Can you point to proof of her eating disorder?
-emarkp
\_ OK, how can we prove anything then? This
actually brings up a very good point, which is
that NONE of her situation is for us to
discuss. And by us I mean anyone that isn't
her, her husband, her parents, and her medical
team (which means no dumbass lawmakers and
politicians of course). The issue of one's end
of life is an extremely personal issue that is
only relevant to the few select people I
mentioned, for they are the ONLY ones that
know the true situation in all its intimate
and fine detail. This is not our business (and
it never was), so let's stop discussing it.
\_ The *real* question in the issue is why did
her husband have the only vote when there
was doubt about her wishes. *That's* what
we need to discuss. If Terri had left
we need to discuss. If Bolemic Lady had left
written instructions, I'd have no beef.
Though it may not have helped her, as it
hasn't for the woman in Georgia. -emarkp
\_ For CHRISSAKE! He didn't have the only
fucking vote. There were multiple
relations who testified to her wishes.
Her parents had their day in court.
The system did its job. Get the hell
over it.
\_ No, the court system determined that
he had the only vote. I don't
understand how the judge did that.
-emarkp
\_ Because he was 1) her husband,
2) her legal guardian, and 3) when
challenged, the judge decided not
to change the guardianship. And
if you start screaming about his
"infidelity" again, we've been
through it. Bury this dead horse.
\_ Do you have a point?
\_ Now wouldn't have it been a lot better if protestors rallied to this
person's cause instead of Terri's?
\_ Terri's story had more time to build up, but I'd say yes, that
person's cause instead of Bolemic Lady's?
\_ Bolemic Lady's story had more time to build up, but I'd say yes, that
person's cause instead of Anorexia's?
\_ Anorexia's story had more time to build up, but I'd say yes, that
this is more important than her case because (if the facts are
right) they're killing someone against her express wishes.
-emarkp
\_ If this is indeed true, and someone wrongly claimed to have power
of attourney, this is bad, and should come to legal trouble for the
hospice and for the claimant to PoA. However, as the only sources so
far are wnd and a few right leaning blogs, I'll continue to be
skeptical. --scotsman
\_ Did you listen to the audio?
\_ no. but it appears to be an interview from someone who made
plenty of hay out of schiavo. Get a journalist on the case
and i'll lose some skepticism. check the validity of the
will. check out the PoA claims. strip the hysterics and give
me the facts.
\_ Ah. So you're not willing to evaluate the case because
Beck was in the don't-starve-Terri camp? Nice piece of
Beck was in the don't-starve-Bolemic Lady camp? Nice piece of
work. -emarkp
\_ Uh, no, i'm not willing to evaluate the case because
everything you've posted and everything on google news
about it is from interested parties. Find me a couple
disinterested observers as sources, and I'll consider
it. For now it feels like an attempted echo chamber.
\_ Pinch hitting for Pedro Borbon... Manny Mota....
\_ People who lose credibility often find it tough
to regain anyones trust. The whole Terri Schiavo
crowd, by their pointless campaign to smear her
husband by spreading a bunch of lies, has lost
my trust and respect.
\_ Now here is a non-WND link: link:csua.org/u/bm7 -emarkp
\_ I don't doubt that even if this particular story is skewed,
in the real world stuff like "Kid doesn't want to take care
of granny anymore for [laziness|greed|revenge|stupidity] and
sticks it to granny against her expressed wishes" is not new to
the 21st century.
\_ what is new is the idea that random nutjobs in Utah think
they should have something to do with the decision. -tom
\_ What does Utah have to do with this? -emarkp
\_ Dum dum dum dum dum...
\_ You mean you just discovered that people starve to death in America?
This kind of stuff has been going on for a long time.
\_ Hey 80 col Nazi! You keep deleting lines that are 79 or 80 chars.
What's your problem? -emarkp
\_ Yeah, doesn't he know that [79 columns|3 out of 4 neurologists
who have done a neurological exam and say she's PVS for 12+
years] is acceptable to most people? [80 columns which causes
automatic linebreaks|evil grandkid ignoring living will] crosses
a line, though.
\_ emarkp, do you realize all of the following:
(1) In Feb 2000, the court determined "by clear and convincing
evidence that Mrs. Schiavo would then elect to cease
evidence that Mrs. Bolemic Lady would then elect to cease
evidence that Mrs. Terri would then elect to cease
life-prolonging procedures if she were competent to make her own
decision".
(2) Her parents appealed.
(3) The Florida appeals court affirmed the decision in Jan 2001.
(4) The Florida appeals court denied re-hearing in Feb 2001.
(5) The Florida Supreme Court denied review of the case in Apr 2001.
(6) Since then there have been multiple motions claiming new
evidence, but all the courts have come back leaving the original
decision intact.
Sure, innocents are executed in capital crimes. Just as well,
Terri Schiavo might be a case where the court is wrong. And, I can
this might be a case where the court is wrong. And, I can
see how it would make sense to create a law that said you can't
kill someone in a PVS unless they have put it in writing. I can
also see how it would make sense to have a law that says you can't
kill a criminal unless there is no doubt (as opposed to beyond a
reasonable doubt) that person committed a capital crime. Your
focus should be on creating the former law, and you do a great
disservice to your cause by not clearly stating this. In addition
to saying "If Terri had left written instructions, I'd have no
to saying "If Bolemic Lady had left written instructions, I'd have no
beef", you should also say, "I support a law requiring such". Stop
complaining about the effects of the rules -- petition to change
the rules.
the rules. -jctwu
\_ You do know that this was a judicial review of Judge Greer's
findings of fact, right? There was no 'de novo' review of the
case. Oh, and sign your name. -emarkp
\_ Because congress is not allowed to just create new
jurisdictions. Separation of powers. The judge rightly
smacked congress down for it.
\_ This is not strictly correct. Art. 3 allows congress
to enact legislation that provides jurisdiction for
fed cts. The jurisdiction of fed cts is far more
limited than what the framers allowed in Art. 3.
Please note that the judges did not rule on whether
the act of congress creating jurisdiction for Bolemic Lady's
the act of congress creating jurisdiction for Terri's
case to be heard in fed ct was constitutional. Rather
he ruled on the temp restraining order that was sought
to keep Bolemic Lady alive. In order to be granted a TRO the
to keep Terri alive. In order to be granted a TRO the
party seeking it must show that they will most likely
previal at trial. The parents could not show this so
the lost the motion.
\_ What is "this"? Are you referring to (3)-(5), or the de novo
review that federal courts were ordered by law to conduct?
Before you answer, I urge you to consider carefully what I've
already written. Why argue when we might already agree on
some key points? -jctwu
\_ "Ordered by law"... Heheh. The judge would have had a
hard time deciding which grounds to toss that law out on.
It's a veritable garden of unconstitutionality.
\_ The standard for review of findings of facts by a ct of
appeals is clear error. The only other way to make new
findings of fact is to conduct a new trial.
While it can be argued that congress authorized this,
the text of the statute is not clear. The version I
read simply says 'de novo', it does not state whether
this is a new trial or merely review of the record. If
it is review of the record, then the dist ct only had
the power to review the record and reverse legal
conclusions or findings of fact that were clearly
erroneous; the dist ct would have to assume that the
trial ct's findings of facts were largely true.
Please also see above re the TRO. The parents did not
meet the requirements to be granted a TRO (which has
nothing to do w/ the standard of review).
Terri's case was handled properly w/in the law, even
if the judges didn't like the outcome, they were
constrained to act as they did. If they were to do
otherwise, all stability would be lost.
If the results in this case are not to your liking,
the proper course of action is to have statutes (fed
or state) enacted to ensure a different result.
--ranga
\_ yeah, like in Texas where Bush enacted a statute that
lets hospitals kill patients over the objections of
their caregivers. -tom
\_ I do not know the legislative history of the
the Texas statute that you mention, however
statutes are normally enacted by the legislature
and signed into law by the Gov. Assuming that
this statute became law in that fashion, the
statute can be taken as an expression of the
views of the majority of the citizen of Texas
by their elected representatives. Perhaps the
views of the citizen differ from those of the
caregivers, but why should the views of the
caregivers be given precedence over those of
the general public?
If the enactment of such a statute bothers you
(1) don't live in Texas or (2) work to elect
people who hold other views.
\_ What kind of nonsense is this. So when the
legislature of Indiana defined Pi to be 4,
that was a good thing since it was the will
of the people?
\_ No, because the bible states it should be 3.
Heretic!
\_ The value of pi is a fact, community
opinion doesn't define the value of
pi, nature does. In contrast, the
issue of how to handle end of life
cases are largely based on societal
conventions/opinion and are best
handled by the legislative process.
BTW, if pi were defined as 4, it
just means that we have to change
the rest of our number system, there
is nothing holy about 3.14159...
\_ If smart was defined as stupid, you would
be smart.
\_ Get your facts right. That never happened.
http://www.snopes.com/religion/pi.htm
\_ I'd be willing to bet that if Terri hadn't been white
and photogenic, we'd never have heard of her. |
| 2005/4/8-9 [Politics/Domestic/President/Clinton, Finance/Investment] UID:37121 Activity:nil |
4/8 Dear motd guy who pointed the census graph, I imported data to
Excel and it's clear to me that the top 5% are gaining yearly income
at a rate much faster rate than the poorest. The exaggerated data point
is 1992 when the top 5% richest got 24.3% increase in income and the
poorest got a measly 1.57%. I mean, we can stop arguing whether income
gap is increasing or not because clearly it is. I mean, what is your
stance on this now? Do we start arguing whether income gap is a good
thing or not? FYI: http://www.census.gov/hhes/income/histinc/f03.html
I think that our argument is becoming more and more similar to M$
lawsuits. First M$ lawyers argue that they don't have a monopoly,
and when they failed to convince people otherwise they argue that
monopoly is GOOD for the industry (by unifying standards, etc).
\_ I thought the argument was about whose fault it was (Clinton's).
\_ How so? The chart showed the gap growing steadily over the last
twenty five years. Note that I am not discounting this line of
reasoning, as the hollowness of the Clinton boom shows up in
other sources. This source did not lead me to that conclusion,
though. -- ulysses
\_ Perhaps, but it's easier to say there's a growing disparity
in wealth (like, no, really?) than to assign blame for it to
Clinton.
\_ Because one is true, and the other is trollish.
\_ What this may be missing is that the top 5% richest people are
not always the same people. People's income (and wealth, which
is not the same) goes up and down over time. What if I said
that the gap was increasing, but that 10 years from now the
people in the bottom 5% would be in the top 5%? (Not true, but
illustrating the point.) Would the gap matter so much? To me,
what matters most is turnover. How hard is it to get into the
top x% and how hard is it to stay there? Historically, wealthy
people lose their wealth within 3 generations. There is pretty
good wealth turnover in this country unlike in, say, Europe.
\_ If you lose your wealth after only 3 generations, then it means
that you're either not Jews or Asian. In another word, just
another regular Joe white trash.
\- Check out this book (Perfectly Legal): http://csua.org/u/bmb
It is a bit tendentious, but much of the stuff is really
disturbing and some of the statistics are so over the top
[like in wealth distribution] it's not a matter of marginal
interpretation. BTW, reading this during tax season can
lead to depression. --psb
\_ "Perfectly Legal, The Covert Campaign to Rig Our Tax
System to Benefit the Super Rich - and Cheat Everybody
Else". Partha, you already know this is happening, and
so does everyone else. Why should I spend $16 on Amazon
(who by the way donates 1/2 mil to Republicans) to read
about something I already know is happening?
\- then dont buy/read it. or get it from the lib. --psb
\_ Is this an anti-Republican, pro-Democrat book in disguise?
\_ Oddly enough, it's an old Chinese proverb that wealth doesn't
last pass 3 generations.
\_ Look jackass, I pointed out that graph to prove to you that
your contention that the poor got poorer during the Clinton
Administration was demonstratably false. I never said anything
about the rich getting richer. That is your trip. I even agreed
with you. Keep ranting on about it if it makes you feel better. |
| 2005/4/8 [Politics/Domestic/President/Bush] UID:37122 Activity:low |
4/8 Evil AP: "The Republican president's job approval is at 44 percent,
with 54 percent disapproving."
Holy CNN: "In the poll taken Friday and Saturday, Bush's job-approval
/Gallup rating is 48%, 3 percentage points higher than in mid-March.
His standing on personal characteristics such as
trustworthiness remains above 50%."
\_ Regarding AP, only 1% is neutral or has no opinion? Hard to
believe.
\_ Evil AP:
"Overall, do you approve, disapprove or have mixed feelings
about the way George W. Bush is handling his job as president?"
If "mixed feelings" or not sure: "If you had to choose, do you
lean more toward approve or disapprove?"
Holy CNN/Gallup:
"Do you approve or disapprove of the way George W. Bush is
handling his job as president?"
\_ So AP forces people to make choices.
\_ The idea is to get the guy a higher approval rate.
Doesn't that make sense?
Independent of this, it is natural to assume (without
any evidence, usually) that the AP has liberal leaning
staffers, and CNN has pro-administration leaning staffers.
Following this reasoning, the true approval rating is
between 44 and 48%. |
| 2005/4/8 [Finance/CC] UID:37123 Activity:nil |
4/8 Is there any downside to setting your fraud alert flag at the credit
agency even if there's no report that you've been compromised?
\_ You may get rejected for 'unusual' purchases, meaning locations
and types of stores that don't fit your usual patterns.
\_ I assume you mean for credit card purchases. Won't a call to
the credit card issuer clear that up? More difficult to do
overseas, but trivial domestically in this cell phone age. Seems
like a small price for stronger security.
\_ Yes it would clear it up, but you've now turned a 2-minute
purchase into a half hour conference call.
\_ I would think that "unusual" purchases are by definition
"uncommon".
\_ When I visited China 1.5 years ago I noticed that their credit cards
have passwords, much like ATM cards have PIN's. Is it just
because Americans are lazy and forgetful that we don't have that?
\_ Considering how much I hear that crime is
expanding in china; it makes sense. I hear from a
friend of mine that the "entertainment" industry is
doing especially well.
\_ We have passwords on our credit cards too. It's called yermom's
maiden name.
\_ Nobody ever asks for that when I make purchases.
\_ Some gas pumps ask for ZIP code, althought that's not very useful
since crooks can just try the ZIP code of wherever they steal the
cards.
\_ you will have to go through more loopholes for things like
loan applications, lines of credit, new credit cards, auto
financing and the like. Basically, any application for new
or more credit.
\_ But isn't it *good* if credit applications require stronger
proof? Besides, can't you just remove the flag before you
know you're going to apply for something, and then just reset
the flag afterwards? Setting the flag is free, after all.
\_ in other words, you're not disagreeing with me.
\_ Since the original post asked for "any downside", I
assumed you would consider "more loopholes[sic]" to be a
downside. In that sense, I am not sure I agree, as my
post indicated. |
| 2005/4/8-10 [Recreation/Food/Alcohol, Recreation/Food] UID:37124 Activity:moderate |
4/8 Which is best? Suppenkuche, Walzwerk, or Schnitzelhaus?
\-Der Wienerschnitzel on San Pablo.
\_ Are all three in SF? Speisekammer in Alameda is also decent.
Only been to Suppenkuche and Speisekammer, both were quite
good (but Suppenkuche was superior, I though)
\_ Enlighten us mere mortals: WTF are you talking about ?
\_ German restaurants.
\_ Huh, it seems Spieskammer is owned by a half-owner of
Suppenkuche.
\_ I've never been to a German restaurant, what is it like? The
closest I've ever gotten is Top-Dog where I eat semi-Germananic
frank. Yes, it's pathetic. What exactly do you get at German
restaurants besides frank and lager? Do you get to see hot robust
German blond waitresses with thick Bulvarian accent?
\_ Der Wienerschnitzel, for one. Also potato pancakes and hearty
dark German lagers that are nothing like American lagers.
\- you can get your meat stuffed with meat at Suppenkuche
\_ Is that homosexual code?
\- du bist eine hasa
\_ Ach, mein Leben! -John
\_ Der Worte sind genug gewechselt,
lasst mich auch endlich Taten sehn!
\_ there are regional variants, i.e. fish from the coastal
areas and wimpy bland sausage from the alps, but classics
found in the u.s. include roulade (meat or cabbage rolls
w/ meaty stuffing), hot potato salad, and sauerbraten
(roast beef marinated for many days in wine vinegar).
of course many sausages, cabbage variants, soups,
and chunks of fatty roated meat. all go well w/ beer. |
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