Perhaps someone can confirm or deny...I had read that 65% or in that area of
foreclosures were unoccupied...investments to turn that went bad. Not Joe
Blow and 2.5 kids.
Mike
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 8:24 PM, John DeCarlo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 10:30 PM, Jeff Wright
Incorrect...or misleading at least. They didn't 'follow a script' at least
not if you want to be clear to the peanut gallery. They visited a web page
that was infected...you know the kind of stuff that never happens. Good
thing macs don't use web pages.
Mike
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 6:28 PM,
I'll look at the solar panel in my wife's trunk. It is about the size
of a news paper folder over on the newstand. It has a cord that plugs
into the cigarette lighter. They recommend plugging it and placing
it on the dashboard if you do not intend to use the car for several
weeks. I wonder if
John--I'm not giving the banks a pass on this, but I've grown weary of the
violin strings played for adults who didn't even begin to have the resources
or were in any sort of position to buy a house, but absolutely had to have a
house, well, because everyone else was getting one. If you want to
My best guess is that F-I are slots for memory cards like SD cards. I
only ever use the SD card reader but it has four slots for different
kinds of memeory and they all get assigned a drive letter..
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 8:11 PM, Richard P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sorry I missed out on on
Thanks for the info. This is actually for another artist friend, whose website
I've been (sporadically) updating. I really don't have the time to devote to
it, so offering him another option like a blog would be great. I'll ask if
he'd like to investigate your other hosting option.
david
Yes, there are 4 SD card slots (which I've not used), which might
explain the 4 drives which have no removable media attached.
Thanks,
Richard P.
My best guess is that F-I are slots for memory cards like SD cards. I
only ever use the SD card reader but it has four slots for different
kinds
I think a blog is an excellent way to update a site. Just have a
static site surrounding it. And make sure the blog is not the index
page (I had a client who insisted on this and then he never made any
entries, so his index page was always blank). As for easing up on
the questions, my client
My best guess is that F-I are slots for memory cards like SD cards. I
only ever use the SD card reader but it has four slots for different
kinds of memeory and they all get assigned a drive letter..
That sounds exactly right!
Thanks for the info. This is actually for another artist friend, whose
website I've been (sporadically) updating. I really don't have the time
to devote to it, so offering him another option like a blog would be
great. I'll ask if he'd like to investigate your other hosting option.
I notice
In my case, there isn't always enough pie to go around.
In the last 6 months, my cablemodem connection that I have had for
years, now gets drug down at certain times of day or night to pokey
speeds by a bunch of local 20 somethings...
Well I won't be resentful of their youth. I also don't
Did I say that only money matters?
What I don't want is the government making the choice about who gets
what.
On Mar 27, 2008, at 9:34 PM, Tom Piwowar wrote:
I do not understand the idea that every improvement, no matter how
expensive, must be affordable by all, and if not some injustice
Yes, if you want to assume that there is no charity in the US. No
religious hospitals that will care for the uninsured, no children's
hospitals providing endowment / other sourced care.
The issue is should the power of government compulsion be used to pay
for care, which WILL result in
Would that it were so easy.
I have cable. My choice is that, or dial-up or satellite download
dial-up upload. I am too far out in the country for DSL to happen any
time soon.
What we need is more competition (no more assigned monopolies), not
more regulation.
I don't think I have a
In your scenario, people are either middle-class (high, medium, or
low) or charity cases. The truth is a large portion of the U.S. is
poor: due to age, education, unemployment, immigration status,
whatever. Some of these people work, own cars, and some even own
their own homes. Out of to pride,
So is it the governments job to save those in need of help the task of
asking for help?
Should the government make all our health choices for us? Many people
with insurance choose to avoid presenting themselves for care for a
variety of reasons and become a statistic. Is that a
Every nation rations health care, by some criteria. In Canada
everyone has the same health insurance. The rationing comes in with
Hospital care/procedures. Their hospitals are flat funded. Which
means if it is funded for 400 CT scans a year that is all it
performs. The Doctors then have
Betty,
Do you by chance live in Maryland? My wife and I have been discussing
going solar with our circa 1905 house and an looking for a reliable
solar contractor.
betty wrote:
And what about Windows users who are perpetually in the dark?
The price for those panels is lower than some of the
I would love to find reliable solar in MD with an affordable up front
cost.
Basically if I have to finance it, I need the electricity I am not
buying from the power co. to generate enough savings to make the
payments on the solar financing.
On Mar 28, 2008, at 11:17 AM, John Settle
The plain truth is that private charity and religious foundations
can't possibly cope with the health care needs of people without
insurance or who have inadequate health insurance. There are too
many people needing too much care--even simple things like having a
tooth pulled--let alone
Effective regulation IS what prevents monopolies.
Assigned monopolies have come to be because business interests now
fund politicians' elections so they get their way. Bigger and fewer
companies makes business more money ... at least in the short term.
db
Matthew Taylor wrote:
Would that
You are mistaken. Current technology requires a LOT of light to
generate usable amounts of electricity.
It's hard to find real data, so let's just take an example from Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000EQ8WKA#moreAboutThisProduct
From the ad copy:
Charging 2 AA (or AAA) batteries in
In this case what is needed is a monopoly with standards set
nationally not locally.
Also what will be needed is subsidy tog et it out to the areas where
it cannot get to right now.
One of the biggest problems any commercial enterprise will run into
is the myriad of regulations they have to
On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 11:58 AM, Tony B [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You are mistaken. Current technology requires a LOT of light to
generate usable amounts of electricity.
It's hard to find real data, so let's just take an example from Amazon:
That's ok, it's even worse for those who get into it with blinded mac
zealots who have trouble denying realities.
I would have posted the results of all the machines but at the time there
were none, I would have been just as happy to post that the vista or linux
box got taken in 30 seconds.
Subject: Turn out Your Lights - Tomorrow Night (8-9 pm)
Join millions of people around the world in making a statement about
climate change by turning off your lights tomorrow night from 8-9 p.m.
for Earth Hour, an event created by the World Wildlife Fund.
Earth Hour was created by WWF
I think that for starters we have a different definition of rationed
This is from http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=rationed
Verb
S: (v) ration (restrict the consumption of a relatively scarce
commodity, as during war) Bread was rationed during the siege of the
city
S: (v) ration,
How about we don't have that myriad of regulations in the first place?
Yes, if you subsidize an air line you can have great service at a
reasonable price by not charging customers what the service costs.
That is called soaking the taxpayer for services they are not using.
I will pass
Has anyone on the list heard of Citizenre? http://renu.citizenre.com/
Someone told me about this company a couple years ago. They rent solar panels
to homeowners and the electricity produced by the panels is offset against the
amount of power purchased from the power company. I don't think
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Entrepreneurs and Consultants SIG (EC SIG)
Extra
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Speaker: Naseem F. Saab, President, Results Software
When: Saturday, April 5, 2008, 1:30-3:30 pm
OK than why were there are more doctors, and more CT scan machines
and MRI scan machines per capita than any other nation we pay more
for our health care?
In many areas we have more Doctors per person than many other
nations. (In urban areas, rural is another story) Yet again we pay
more
Everyone can read the story and see for themselves that my summary was
accurate.
Well, I read it, and in fact your summary was not accurate at all, unless by
script you mean he directed the contest's organizers to visit a Web
site Pretty short script.
This has nothing to do with Windows fan
What is the motivation for a government to want a monopoly of business?
Government ends up granting monopolies after business... who has the
maximation of profit/ cornering the market motivation ... eventually
gets its way through much lobbying/ dispensing of campaign funds to
government
Because the business interests agree to give the government some of
the take in the case of things like cable franchise fees?
On Mar 28, 2008, at 1:17 PM, db wrote:
What is the motivation for a government to want a monopoly of
business?
Government ends up granting monopolies after
On Mar 28, 2008, at 12:58 PM, Rev. Stewart Marshall wrote:
OK than why were there are more doctors, and more CT scan machines
and MRI scan machines per capita than any other nation we pay more
for our health care?
Because we want those services on demand, whether we actually need
them or
Apple has released 4 security updates in March,
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1222. I got a notice for a Mozilla
SeaMonkey security update today. Firefox updated earlier this week, also
Thunderbird. These are for all platforms
Then you're going to have to enlighten me. It uses solar cells
(photovoltaic cells, if you will) to charge a battery at a slow
current (trickle charge), so I don't know of a better example.
On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 12:20 PM, John DeCarlo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 11:58 AM,
What is the motivation for a government to want a monopoly of business?
Government ends up granting monopolies after business... who has the
maximation of profit/ cornering the market motivation ... eventually
gets its way through much lobbying/ dispensing of campaign funds to
government
You people and your anti-mac zealotry. The fact the MacBook Air was
hacked first is only because people at the event didn't bother hacking
the other systems. Other articles quote attendees saying so. They wanted
to get the Mac because that's where the cred and kudos lie. Any script
kiddy can jack
All three of these OS's have known vulnerabilities to the vendor that aren't
patched. All vendors have been in the past warned about holes and done
nothing for some time. The standards were 'lowered' to the point of a
normal computer take downvisiting a web page. They wanted to get the
mac
Correction from me and for youI had read he had taken the mac because of
the appeal of the hardware. The register reports that he chose the mac
because quote 'I thought of the three it was the easiest'.
Mike
On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 1:04 PM, Michael Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
They
Yes but those administration fees (or kickback or whatever you want
to call them) of some of the profits doesn't make the government the
party who wanted, proposed and ultimately benefits the most from the
creation of a monopoly.
Here's an analogy:
If money could influence the fundamental
John Settle [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió:
Betty,
Do you by chance live in Maryland? My wife and I have been discussing going
solar with our circa 1905 house and an looking for a reliable solar contractor.
John,
Go to Chesapeake Climate Action Network, http://chesapeakeclimate.org/.
Mike
On Fri, 28 Mar 2008, mike wrote:
Correction from me and for youI had read he had taken the mac because of
the appeal of the hardware. The register reports that he chose the mac
because quote 'I thought of the three it was the easiest'.
There's a new article at ComputerWorld reporting
On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 11:58 AM, Tony B [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You are mistaken. Current technology requires a LOT of light to
generate usable amounts of electricity.
It's hard to find real data, so let's just take an example from Amazon:
I was intrigued with several earlier posts here, first about free movie
downloads in public domain and then about bittorrent. So I decided to
investigate.
I found a web site that said that the web browser Opera supported
bittorrent, so I went to a web site that had free downloads with
What I don't want is the government making the choice about who gets
what.
Why do we need a government? Imagine what your school would be like if no
one was in charge. Each class would make its own rules. Who gets to use
the gym if two classes want to use it at the same time? Who would clean
Alternatively how about we let the market work - and couple the
consumption of health care to payment for healthcare. Then we will
see a rationalized, but not rationed approach to healthcare.
The NRA says Guns don't kill people, people kill people. So here you
are setting up a process that
Bittorrent is peer to peer file sharing, it takes as long as it takes with
the connected users in the swarm who are uploading. If the seeders, the
people who are uploading are connected on dialup it will take forever, if
they are on high speed then less. The time it takes to download can change
I'm not willing to accept this machinery of death.
I'm also not willing to accept crummy and expensive broadband.
I'm confused here. Who's killing whom? Is this when robots become
sentient, enslave mankind and viciously take over the world? If it weren't
for the cheap and ultra high speed
What I don't want is the government making the choice about who gets
what.
Government in the United States does decide who gets what:
Government decided when, what, where you buy, how much you pay, content of
Alcohol.
Government decides what you can and cannot smoke...legal tobacco, illegal,
According to this article, it looks like he tried that route last year
but wasn't satisfied with the result:
http://tinyurl.com/252787
Richard P.
Snip... Once he could direct organizers to
a website, Miller put into place things he had been working on for a
month or more -- things he could
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Yes but those administration fees (or kickback or whatever you
want to call them) of some of the profits doesn't make the
government the party who wanted, proposed and ultimately benefits the
It gets back to what I said a while back about torrent downloads
speeds being limited to your upload speed. As Mike explained, you may
occasionally come across a particularly fast uploader, but much more
common is that you connect with a bunch of users like yourself, thus
limiting your download
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