I'm with everyone else. As an IT Monkey myself, wondering how is it possible the IT Department has never heard of Mozilla? Um, WTF? I think someone is just lying - perhaps scared they may have to support something that hasn't grown out of Redmond? Anyhow, I would say keep using Mozilla/Firefox unless she gets a specific direction from IT or the Network Administrator that it is forbidden. Then have her load her Firefox profile from a thumb drive. No need to worry about deleting cookies or bookmarks from her laptop, that way. I think you can also run the whole browser from a thumbdrive, though I've never tried it.
Tracking cookies can be considered spyware - or I guess more correctly, files used by online spyware.
The IT guys, who have not heard of Mozilla. Man . . .You should also show them this cool website at slashdot.org. Then again, perhaps they have never heard of "Linux" either.
I lived in Austin for 6 years in the 90's. It's a nice town - but very hard to secure a good job - and you do have redneck and backwards elements creeping in all around, even if not in the central city. And the traffic/SUV/suburb/big box culture seems to be making it a little more like Dallas every day.
There's nowhere in the country I'd rather live than where I am now - San Francisco. Yes, rents are high - but that is counterbalanced by many things, especially since you don't have the need and costs of immediate car ownership and plentiful, high-paying tech jobs. Come to SF: there is tons of work, whether it be permanent or contract to start. There is a lot of housing now that the market is dipping. There is so much culture and so much that contributes to a high quality lifestyle here - I don't think you would regret it. Let us know if you do end up here. We'll take you out for some good food and good beer and fill you in on tricks of affordable living in the city that easily counterbalance the high rents.
There's a burger place here in Dallas that is supposed to specialise in insults. I've never been there myself, since we are awash in more good burger places than you can shake a steer at (or than I can eat at), but maybe sometime.
Don'tcha know - we invaded Iraq, not because of WMDs, but because of the potential eventuality of hypothetical WMD-related programmes!
and freedom is on the march and we're fightin' the terrois' and we are welcomed as liberators!
"politics go so good with beer"
"and while we're at it baby, why don't you tell me one of your biggest fears?"
i said "losing my penis to a whore with disease"
"just kidding" i said "losing my life to a whore with disease"
i said "please... i'm a humble guy with a healthy desire"
No way it will be Hillary. Think moderate (I know she really is, but I mean *perceived* as moderate). Bubba was basically an Eisenhower Republican. We need someone similar. No idea who it could be, but a moderate Dem governor is not a bad guess. There are still a fair number of those left. Perhaps Bill Richards of New Mexico or Mike Easley out of North Carolina.
Wow lots of comments. I'll just throw in my vote for non-peak matinee shows - or at least non-weekend nights. I used to work near a theatre, and it was a wonderful way to sit out the Dallas rush hour (waiting until 7 cut about an hour off my commute - so I saw a film and "saved" an hour!) And mainly - the $5.00 tickets drew me.
I like the cinema, but man - it costs the wife and I $18 now to go at night. We're on a tight budget, so paying that much can actually effect my enjoyment of a movie. The bastards here also charge an *extra* $2 per ticket if you want to buy them online, which means I either have to sacrifice my preferred method of purchase, or pay $22 for two movie tickets. The last film we saw in the theatre (Maria Full of Grace) was a good movie - but the thought of paying so much just nagged at the back of my mind.
I guess the theatres have hit a price point that makes sense to them economically, but it's definitely to the point where it has driven me away.
Wait a second . . .
you all are saying in Canada pot is legal, call girls are legal and you're not ruled by an arrogant chimpanzee? I think I may seriously have to look into emigrating to Vancouver! 40 F for a low and 56 F for a high today . . .I suppose that's not too cold . . .
just what are we going to do with the boomers?
Carousel?
A young girl here died recently because she needed a transplant, and her family could not raise $250,000 for a deposit. It was apparently a $1 million operation - but the hospital would not touch her unless they came up with at least the $250 K. They actually had health insurance (unlike many), but the claim was denied because the girl was in a high-risk category or something.
In Canada, she would have probably lived - but some wealthy person may have had to wait a month for his/her turn.
The fact is, we don't usually let people die on the street - so there is a de facto national healthcare system. It's just tied up in a Kafkaesque bureaucracy of taxes, insurance, forms, and employment ties. All those people that end up in the ER and have no insurance? We're paying for them, anyway. But in the U.S., they become a convenient excuse for the medical industry to keep raising costs and make windfall profits.The uninsured may add 5% to a medical cost a year - but the drug company or hospital or insurance company will raise rates by 10%. I think that's mainly what it's about - and why they are against a standard national healthcare system.
I spent the Summer in the UK, and took some other American friends to hospital after a minor car accident. They received x-rays, lab work, casts. It was completely weird to have all this care and not have to fill out 50 different forms and call 8 insurance companies and not have the doctors on the phone fighting with the insurers because the company thought a certain recommended treatment option was not as "cost effective" as a lesser one. We just left after a few hours - no need for a chequebook and no waiting for prescriptions and coming up with $1000 for co-pays.It was amazing.
And for what it's worth, two of my friends have parents who are surgeons, and they felt the care they received was on par with the quality they would have in most U.S. ERs.
Folk music is music which has a basis in folk tradition. Real folk music is music which continues to be a part of folklore. Other countries have this, the US doesn't. Please leave. I plan to do so as soon as I can.
Not sure what you mean by "continues to be a part of folklore." If you mean stories told with songs passed down as tradition among illiterate/semi-literate people, well there is not much left - but the U.S, is hardly alone in that regard. "Folk music" under that definition would only be found in small isolated pockets in most every industrialised country. It would be more widespread, of course, in Third-World nations in Africa, Latin America, Asia . . .
There are a lot of reasons someone may want to move somewhere else, but lack of primitive native cultural expressions sure would not be very high up there in my book!
The Smithsonian, for one, contains quite an extensive amount of information on traditional and folk music in the U.S.
Are you sure they even test for cannabis? Most pre-employment drug tests here in the U.S. don't, unless you are applying to be a pilot, train conductor, etc. Though there are some exceptions, of course. I have worked in IT Departments for large companies that . . . well, let's just say they would not have very many people left working there if they screened for cannabis.
I'd be curious to know what sort of job is this rigid . . . that is, if you care to tell us, of course.
What about the 20% of Americans with no health insurance (probably a much higher percentage of those with crap jobs) who don't have health insurance and so can't afford Prozac?
It's a Republican talking point. Some Bushies will drink the kool-aid, while most Dems and Independents and quite a few Republicans will see right through it. All politicians compromise - it's part of the game. 20 years in the Senate, yeah he's going to change positions on some issues. Show me any (successful)politician who hasn't. Bush pledged in 2000 "not to try and be the world's policeman." Ooops. Of course they will say "everything changed after 9-11." Yet they had the Iraqi invasion plan in place *before* 9-11. So I guess it's OK to "waffle" if circumstances change? And 9-11 was the only time circumstances of anything have ever changed?
How about volunteering to fight in Viet Nam and then becoming an anti-war leader? Is this "waffling?" Or is it using what you have learned to make a new and informed decision? To most people, gaining knowledge is a positive thing. To the current administration it's useless, because they are "never wrong" about anything in the first place. Infallible. Practically Demi-Gods.If you think otherwise, you hate America.
Dubya & Co. are merely preaching to the converted. It looks like they are going to have a real hard time winning any new votes come November.
The official word from the FAM service is apparently the largest problem with the flight was that Jacobsen overreacted:
Undercover federal air marshals on board a June 29 Northwest airlines flight from Detroit to LAX identified themselves after a passenger, "overreacted," to a group of middle-eastern men on board, federal officials and sources have told KFI NEWS.
The passenger, later identified as Annie Jacobsen, was in danger of panicking other passengers and creating a larger problem on the plane, according to a source close to the secretive federal protective service.
Jacobsen, a self-described freelance writer, has published two stories about her experience at womenswallstreet.com, a business advice web site designed for women.
"The lady was overreacting," said the source. "A flight attendant was told to tell the passenger to calm down; that there were air marshals on the plane."
The middle eastern men were identified by federal agents as a group of touring musicians travelling to a concert date at a casino, said Air Marshals spokesman Dave Adams. . .
The source said the air marshals on the flight were partially concerned Jacobsen’s actions could have been an effort by terrorists or attackers to create a disturbance on the plane to force the agents to identify themselves.
Air marshals’ only tactical advantage on a flight is their anonymity, the source said, and Jacobsen could have put the entire flight in danger.
“They have to be very cognizant of their surroundings,” spokesman Adams confirmed, “to make sure it isn’t a ruse to try and pull them out of their cover.”
The KFI site does not have permalinks to individual stories. The date to scroll to is 22 July.
Dubya may tied with Clinton, but Clinton served 2 terms!
The Google analysis is a bit flawed, I think you are much more likely to find Dubya jokes on the web than, say Nixon jokes or Reagan jokes (or even Clinton jokes), since they are more current.People wouldn't bother to post a Nixon joke, for instance, because so many people wouldn't get it. For that matter, many of the people posting to the web wouldn't get it (I suspect the average mean age for a weblog/message board poster is somewhere around 25 years old.)
There is also a lot more media nowadays. In the 1970's, we had 3 TV networks and a couple of talk shows. Now we have 6 networks and dozens of cable channels, many with talk shows, and many, many more talk radio shows.
I think jokes about all Presidents have always been standard fare in the popular Zeitgeist. I remember a lot of Reagan jokes when I was young. Some of it also has to do with the source material. You don't hear too many Ford jokes, but how many jokes can you tell about someone being a klutz (about the only thing Ford is known for.)
I'm with everyone else. As an IT Monkey myself, wondering how is it possible the IT Department has never heard of Mozilla? Um, WTF? I think someone is just lying - perhaps scared they may have to support something that hasn't grown out of Redmond? Anyhow, I would say keep using Mozilla/Firefox unless she gets a specific direction from IT or the Network Administrator that it is forbidden. Then have her load her Firefox profile from a thumb drive. No need to worry about deleting cookies or bookmarks from her laptop, that way. I think you can also run the whole browser from a thumbdrive, though I've never tried it. Tracking cookies can be considered spyware - or I guess more correctly, files used by online spyware. The IT guys, who have not heard of Mozilla. Man . . .You should also show them this cool website at slashdot.org. Then again, perhaps they have never heard of "Linux" either.
posted by SixDW 18 years ago
In "I really CAN'T go home again."
I lived in Austin for 6 years in the 90's. It's a nice town - but very hard to secure a good job - and you do have redneck and backwards elements creeping in all around, even if not in the central city. And the traffic/SUV/suburb/big box culture seems to be making it a little more like Dallas every day. There's nowhere in the country I'd rather live than where I am now - San Francisco. Yes, rents are high - but that is counterbalanced by many things, especially since you don't have the need and costs of immediate car ownership and plentiful, high-paying tech jobs. Come to SF: there is tons of work, whether it be permanent or contract to start. There is a lot of housing now that the market is dipping. There is so much culture and so much that contributes to a high quality lifestyle here - I don't think you would regret it. Let us know if you do end up here. We'll take you out for some good food and good beer and fill you in on tricks of affordable living in the city that easily counterbalance the high rents.
posted by SixDW 18 years ago
In "Epi-curious George"
Oxford has a tie-cutting pub, too - though I don't recall the name. Very good pub though.
posted by SixDW 19 years ago
There's a burger place here in Dallas that is supposed to specialise in insults. I've never been there myself, since we are awash in more good burger places than you can shake a steer at (or than I can eat at), but maybe sometime.
posted by SixDW 19 years ago
In "US gives up search for WMD in Iraq ..."
Don'tcha know - we invaded Iraq, not because of WMDs, but because of the potential eventuality of hypothetical WMD-related programmes! and freedom is on the march and we're fightin' the terrois' and we are welcomed as liberators!
posted by SixDW 19 years ago
In "Monkey Gone To Heaven "
"politics go so good with beer" "and while we're at it baby, why don't you tell me one of your biggest fears?" i said "losing my penis to a whore with disease" "just kidding" i said "losing my life to a whore with disease" i said "please... i'm a humble guy with a healthy desire"
posted by SixDW 19 years ago
In "Who's next?"
No way it will be Hillary. Think moderate (I know she really is, but I mean *perceived* as moderate). Bubba was basically an Eisenhower Republican. We need someone similar. No idea who it could be, but a moderate Dem governor is not a bad guess. There are still a fair number of those left. Perhaps Bill Richards of New Mexico or Mike Easley out of North Carolina.
posted by SixDW 19 years ago
In "Curious George-Movie"
Wow lots of comments. I'll just throw in my vote for non-peak matinee shows - or at least non-weekend nights. I used to work near a theatre, and it was a wonderful way to sit out the Dallas rush hour (waiting until 7 cut about an hour off my commute - so I saw a film and "saved" an hour!) And mainly - the $5.00 tickets drew me. I like the cinema, but man - it costs the wife and I $18 now to go at night. We're on a tight budget, so paying that much can actually effect my enjoyment of a movie. The bastards here also charge an *extra* $2 per ticket if you want to buy them online, which means I either have to sacrifice my preferred method of purchase, or pay $22 for two movie tickets. The last film we saw in the theatre (Maria Full of Grace) was a good movie - but the thought of paying so much just nagged at the back of my mind. I guess the theatres have hit a price point that makes sense to them economically, but it's definitely to the point where it has driven me away.
posted by SixDW 19 years ago
In ""
Wait a second . . . you all are saying in Canada pot is legal, call girls are legal and you're not ruled by an arrogant chimpanzee? I think I may seriously have to look into emigrating to Vancouver! 40 F for a low and 56 F for a high today . . .I suppose that's not too cold . . .
posted by SixDW 19 years ago
In "Canada's burning - "
just what are we going to do with the boomers? Carousel? A young girl here died recently because she needed a transplant, and her family could not raise $250,000 for a deposit. It was apparently a $1 million operation - but the hospital would not touch her unless they came up with at least the $250 K. They actually had health insurance (unlike many), but the claim was denied because the girl was in a high-risk category or something. In Canada, she would have probably lived - but some wealthy person may have had to wait a month for his/her turn. The fact is, we don't usually let people die on the street - so there is a de facto national healthcare system. It's just tied up in a Kafkaesque bureaucracy of taxes, insurance, forms, and employment ties. All those people that end up in the ER and have no insurance? We're paying for them, anyway. But in the U.S., they become a convenient excuse for the medical industry to keep raising costs and make windfall profits.The uninsured may add 5% to a medical cost a year - but the drug company or hospital or insurance company will raise rates by 10%. I think that's mainly what it's about - and why they are against a standard national healthcare system. I spent the Summer in the UK, and took some other American friends to hospital after a minor car accident. They received x-rays, lab work, casts. It was completely weird to have all this care and not have to fill out 50 different forms and call 8 insurance companies and not have the doctors on the phone fighting with the insurers because the company thought a certain recommended treatment option was not as "cost effective" as a lesser one. We just left after a few hours - no need for a chequebook and no waiting for prescriptions and coming up with $1000 for co-pays.It was amazing. And for what it's worth, two of my friends have parents who are surgeons, and they felt the care they received was on par with the quality they would have in most U.S. ERs.
posted by SixDW 19 years ago
In "User #1: "Mofi rules! Mefi drools!""
although Cali is drop-dead gorgeous Um . . .you know, you are right. That's not just empty flattery!
posted by SixDW 19 years ago
In "Here"
I think my hardcore Republican father is voting Badnarik (Libertarian)this year.
posted by SixDW 19 years ago
In "This can't be true."
Folk music is music which has a basis in folk tradition. Real folk music is music which continues to be a part of folklore. Other countries have this, the US doesn't. Please leave. I plan to do so as soon as I can. Not sure what you mean by "continues to be a part of folklore." If you mean stories told with songs passed down as tradition among illiterate/semi-literate people, well there is not much left - but the U.S, is hardly alone in that regard. "Folk music" under that definition would only be found in small isolated pockets in most every industrialised country. It would be more widespread, of course, in Third-World nations in Africa, Latin America, Asia . . . There are a lot of reasons someone may want to move somewhere else, but lack of primitive native cultural expressions sure would not be very high up there in my book! The Smithsonian, for one, contains quite an extensive amount of information on traditional and folk music in the U.S.
posted by SixDW 19 years ago
In "Bush Campaign Advice For Americans"
Has anyone checked to see if Ms. Sheybani is still employed today?
posted by SixDW 19 years ago
In ""
Oh hey dude, I just saw you're in Dallas. If you don't get the job, come over and at least I'll smoke you out!
posted by SixDW 19 years ago
Are you sure they even test for cannabis? Most pre-employment drug tests here in the U.S. don't, unless you are applying to be a pilot, train conductor, etc. Though there are some exceptions, of course. I have worked in IT Departments for large companies that . . . well, let's just say they would not have very many people left working there if they screened for cannabis. I'd be curious to know what sort of job is this rigid . . . that is, if you care to tell us, of course.
posted by SixDW 19 years ago
In "Bush Campaign Advice For Americans"
What about the 20% of Americans with no health insurance (probably a much higher percentage of those with crap jobs) who don't have health insurance and so can't afford Prozac?
posted by SixDW 19 years ago
In "Curious George: Kerry waffles?"
It's a Republican talking point. Some Bushies will drink the kool-aid, while most Dems and Independents and quite a few Republicans will see right through it. All politicians compromise - it's part of the game. 20 years in the Senate, yeah he's going to change positions on some issues. Show me any (successful)politician who hasn't. Bush pledged in 2000 "not to try and be the world's policeman." Ooops. Of course they will say "everything changed after 9-11." Yet they had the Iraqi invasion plan in place *before* 9-11. So I guess it's OK to "waffle" if circumstances change? And 9-11 was the only time circumstances of anything have ever changed? How about volunteering to fight in Viet Nam and then becoming an anti-war leader? Is this "waffling?" Or is it using what you have learned to make a new and informed decision? To most people, gaining knowledge is a positive thing. To the current administration it's useless, because they are "never wrong" about anything in the first place. Infallible. Practically Demi-Gods.If you think otherwise, you hate America. Dubya & Co. are merely preaching to the converted. It looks like they are going to have a real hard time winning any new votes come November.
posted by SixDW 19 years ago
In "Anne Jacobsen article from WomansWallStreet about her experience on a flight with a groups of suspicious acting "Arabs." "
The official word from the FAM service is apparently the largest problem with the flight was that Jacobsen overreacted:
The KFI site does not have permalinks to individual stories. The date to scroll to is 22 July.posted by SixDW 19 years ago
In "Curious George"
Dubya may tied with Clinton, but Clinton served 2 terms! The Google analysis is a bit flawed, I think you are much more likely to find Dubya jokes on the web than, say Nixon jokes or Reagan jokes (or even Clinton jokes), since they are more current.People wouldn't bother to post a Nixon joke, for instance, because so many people wouldn't get it. For that matter, many of the people posting to the web wouldn't get it (I suspect the average mean age for a weblog/message board poster is somewhere around 25 years old.) There is also a lot more media nowadays. In the 1970's, we had 3 TV networks and a couple of talk shows. Now we have 6 networks and dozens of cable channels, many with talk shows, and many, many more talk radio shows. I think jokes about all Presidents have always been standard fare in the popular Zeitgeist. I remember a lot of Reagan jokes when I was young. Some of it also has to do with the source material. You don't hear too many Ford jokes, but how many jokes can you tell about someone being a klutz (about the only thing Ford is known for.)
posted by SixDW 19 years ago
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