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Bad for everyone else. As I said, what do you think the Messiah is telling people behind closed doors? Basically, it's I have to bash you in public, but don't worry fellas, we'll take care of you.

Earmarks = attachments to what's NOT in the budget. Therefore, it doesn't have to go through appropriations. Listen, it's a problem. If that s*** is coming into my district, shame on my congressman, R or D. It's bulls***. It's a way to buy off votes, pure and simple. How do you think Olympia Snowjob, Arlena Spectacle, and Susan "Buy Me Off" Collins voted for the damn porkulus bill? Duh.

QUOTE (EvilMisquoter @ Mar 12, 2009 -> 07:07 PM) You gotta clear the processor of the IPS on the s*** can drive. Fixed.

Sorry about that - I have to do that when I rebuild/reindex post tables to keep them from being written to. ANY TIME you get that, refresh your cache if you don't see the page in a day... (or less, I just figured out a way to reindex in about 1/2 the time this time).

QUOTE (bmags @ Mar 12, 2009 -> 06:26 PM) He became DNC Chairman, stayed out of the spotlight and quietly built a political ground game that netted them a huge majority in the house, nearly filibuster-proof majority in the senate and the executive branch, a party looking at huge favorable ratings, and meanwhile the minority party has just hired Michael Steele.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Mar 12, 2009 -> 05:54 PM) A statement that probably slips by most readers of this piece that basically says dropping M2M accounting can be a way of using the treasury to allow the banking industry to totally rape the American taxpayers while the Obama administration gets good press for getting a great deal on those assets that are returning $.05 on the dollar. That's pretty interesting. It gives both sides what they want. Nice. And bad, at the same time.

QUOTE (mreye @ Mar 12, 2009 -> 03:22 PM) How about "The World"? How many times has that changed names? I always called the Hoosier Dome the Hoosier Dome even after that company that shall remain nameless stole it and ripped the real name out of the hearts of every Hoosier and then took a big duke in the hole in our chests where our loving hearts used to be. F**kers! I just recently bought my first product made by them, but did so with the government coupons for the DV adapters. "RCA" Dome. And it's dookie. Not duke. Although, that's what I like to call Dookie University and Coach Mike Chezevskeeee.

The way I heard the story was she WANTED to use it... but basically got told to shut up.

This is one time I will give Nancy "Botox" Pelosi credit. http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090312/pl_nm/...stimulus_pelosi This is probably a head fake, but at least it's out there.

QUOTE (Jenks Heat @ Mar 12, 2009 -> 12:28 PM) I knew of it as Amaco but always got it confused and called it Prudential Tower. This was after I was told that it was not the John Hancock Building which I thought it was until I was like 24 years old. I sitll think of it as that, but that's what I grew up knowing it as.

Steele is an idiot. Not even Howard Dean idiot. He's an idiot all unto himself at this point.

What a f***tard thing to do. Seriously.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Mar 10, 2009 -> 11:20 AM) You aren't kidding. My friend works in the security department for Apple (in the Cupertino campus), and often shares his experiences with me in the interviews he gives people. One of his most often failed questions goes like so: "If you had root on a *NIX machine, but could only use the default tools on the server/not install anything new or run any sort of script, what would be one of the first steps you take to figure out what kind of server it is, what it does, etc.?!" Now you would be amazed that 99% of the "charlatans", as you called them, answer with, "I'd use NMAP or something similar to portscan the server." Which of course you cannot do, because he just said NO INSTALLING ANYTHING OR RUNNING SCRIPTS. As you pointed out, people lean on these types of programs to call themselves experts. When more simple commands such as netstat -an would give you the information he just asked for in 1/1000th the time. Or how about, I don't know...taking a peek at the process list?! Needless to say, these people don't get hired...but they a majority of his applicants. And their resumes are COMPLETELY fabricated/embellished. Bottom line, don't use tools/scripts to drive 100 miles when the place you're trying to go is only 1 mile away. Ok, hell, I'm not an IT guy at all but I at least would know to run a process list (and at the top of that process list is the whole damn thing he asked).

It's not the point. At all. But that's fine... I will step out of this argument.

Man there's some serious Kaperbole ™ going on in this thread.

QUOTE (G&T @ Mar 10, 2009 -> 08:56 PM) JD's are useful in a lot of professions. If you decided to get an MBA, having a JD/MBA is extremely marketable. If you want to teach, a JD is a teaching degree for college. If you want to write (about law) you will have that at your disposal. Of course, it is also quite expensive. There are also jobs within the legal community that are not lawyer jobs. But at your age, I don't think you should aim to be a Westlaw trainer. Here is an article that discuses both sides of it. Meh, not as much as you'd think, from what I understand.

NO ONE saw what was coming. NO ONE. It's easy to b**** and pick nits after the fact. I love how the messengers of Barack's failures are now a part of the mainstream to assassinate the s*** out of them. Yea, this is a different breed of politics that we were promised all right. I think it's worse.

I really need to make my M2M post from an accounting standpoint and what went wrong. I'm sorry I haven't because it would add a lot to the discussion. I promise, I'm not trying to pat myself on the back, it's just my profession and I can add a lot to it. I will hopefully tomorrow.

QUOTE (Cknolls @ Mar 10, 2009 -> 03:14 PM) http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/03/10...itary-aircraft/ Somebody get her a pacifier, PLEASE! I've heard of this before, from back in 2006 even. She is the stupidest, dumbest b**** I have ever seen on Capital Hill. And as I've said numberous time, so I'm not a sexist, so is her PIC Harry Reid.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Mar 10, 2009 -> 09:15 AM) By the way, markets up big today, 4 to 5% on major indicies so far. Not sure if this is the beginning of a bounce or not - there seems to be increasing levels of noise that the market is oversold on irrational levels of fear (as I suggested recently). Could also just be a blip. They are up because Citibank says they are operating at a profit for the first two months of the year. Combine this with the MTM noise, we might have seen our bottom. I could use an extra $1K on my cashout before next week.

re: point #1, you go to historical cost. That is what the rest of accounting is based on. The problem is, you don't really know what the true historical cost of these assets really are. I would expect some guidance from FASB on this if they do suspend MTM.

QUOTE (FlaSoxxJim @ Mar 10, 2009 -> 09:18 AM) Well, it may be an alternate spelling of Kaproballistic which I unsuccessfully tried to introduce to SoxTalk canon a while back. That would itself be a Kapified alternate spelling of caproballistic which is a tongue-in-cheek scientific term referring to the habit of primates throwing their feces. It's not craproballistic? I love it.

QUOTE (bmags @ Mar 9, 2009 -> 11:24 PM) They are proposing a spending freeze kap. That's not an idea. That's a joke. What are you hearing and seeing that i'm not. I hadn't seen that one. That is a joke, you're right about that one. Can you link me? I'd like to read that one. I've seen a lot of ideas sort of floating around out there, but again, as I have said, the Republican party doesn't have a CLUE about how to get their message out. Frankly, neither does the Democrat party right now, but that's another side of this that I'm not going down right now.

Oh, I guess I'm bored so I'm posting again. But I'm trying to not be a Kaperbolistic asshole.

Oh, I'm lost, so I'll volunteer. (And I'm somewhat serious). (Before I start, I'm not talking down to you, please keep that in mind when I discuss this... I don't mean to come across that way). Let's see. Here's the best part, Beast. You're young, and you're allowed to make a few mistakes! That's the best part. It sounds like you've grown up some since you left home, and I think that's good for you. I think you had to get away so that you could see that there is a different path then what you thought there was. My background, the condensed version. I was one of those that had a career picked out in high school and I never changed from it. I wanted to go into accounting and finance because I wanted to use that as a baseline to "branch out", except to be honest, I never have. It's just where I've been stuck for 20 years. More on that later. I think any time you're in the situation you're in, you have to take a few "extra" classes (the intro ones) to see what really interests you. Does marketing? Business management? Accounting? (It's not math, contrary to what a lot of people tell you). Take some of those electives and see where it takes you because I think you will find that there's something there that you'll pick up on. The BEST thing for you to do is find what you like and stick to it. The reason? It's not so much work. The accounting thing for me is work. It really is. I don't really like it, and the main reason I don't like it is because it always ends up in a political situation (ethical) situation I don't like. When you bite the hand that feeds you, you will get bitten. I'll be perfectly blunt, and it probably sounds negative, but the "real world" is highly political. Everywhere. Office politics, how to get further and further down the career path, then you start to balance that out with family, etc. It gets hard. But it doesn't have to be. It's harder for me because I think I chose the wrong career. I am seriously thinking about what I want to do at almost 36, and I don't have a clue. It's not a place to be in with 2 kids, a house, two car payments, etc. So, explore and make that decision - and at least you're going into it with more of an open mind then I ever had. Once you decide what's for you, dedicate yourself to it and the work you put into it early will pay off. Attend "extra" things in whatever profession you choose. Why? Networking. Colleges usually offer memberships to different things - use it. Once you land that first job, use the things that are out there for you to learn. If you do that very early, you will set yourself up very well. On a personal note, if you're not comfortable with something, do it, especially in college. It's the place you can learn how to handle situations before you see it in the real world. You get do over's in college many times, you don't in the real world. Experience things. Make mistakes. Learn from them. The whole premise here is that you're still at a place where you can do what you want to, but just don't let it overwhelm you. Just take things as they come, you'll find your way. Once you do, run with it.