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QUOTE(BigSqwert @ Oct 25, 2007 -> 02:25 PM) You just have to wonder how many pockets are lined in Congress with health care money from lobbyists. If you say all of them, I suspect you'll be right waaaaay more times than wrong.

I was a big Canon fan for a while, but bought an HP All-In-One a couple years ago and now that is all I buy.

Only a small bone in my foot.

On the 106th day of Christmas, Balta said to me . . .

I would like to be the first to wish y'all a very Merry Christmas , A Happy New Year, may your Festival of Lights be festive, and of course a cathartic airing of the grievances for those that celebrate Festivus. Can you believe all the Christmas stuff already on sale?

QUOTE(BigEdWalsh @ Oct 25, 2007 -> 12:57 PM) I've never had pineapple on a pizza. The pineapple must be near canadian bacon for it to work. I'm a pizza purist but will admit to enjoying a Rosati's pineapple and bacon.

Romney is going to have trouble tapping those funds also. I'm guessing they will be long hold outs. This may help McCain who wasn't the religious right's choice in 2000

Perhaps there is some value in at least having all the factors in a normal business loan present. But much like larger debt to third world countries, just getting the principle back is a victory of sorts. I've seen a lot of those grocery stores that seem to be the popular business loan. I would be interested next time I am in Laredo to try and find the businesses that are being touted.

QUOTE(29andPoplar @ Oct 25, 2007 -> 12:45 PM) Oh, and Kenny Williams contracts a bad case of amnesia. Maybe Ozzie Guillen too. And Frank too

You know, just wondering

QUOTE(YASNY @ Oct 24, 2007 -> 01:06 PM) I don't know about the above post, but I'll be seeing Pat Greene and Willie Nelson Saturday night. Pat Green Awesome show. You will have a great time. Is Willie doing a full set or just dropping in for a cameo and the duet they did on Pat Green's Three Days CD?

At the minimum, I'd love to see an Emmett Smith like trade and the end of his career. Silly perhaps.

QUOTE(Chisoxfn @ Oct 25, 2007 -> 11:46 AM) I wish Frank would hang them up at the end of the year because it would be great for him to finish up with such amazing statistics. However, Frank has consistently had money problems over the past couple years and I would be stunned if he didn't stick around solely for the paycheck. I was thinking the same thing. I always wondered how much Frank loved the game. Not a criticism, not everyone is smiling like Mark, but sometimes his abilities seemed like a burden to him. If he sticks around a few seasons more, I hope he's enjoying the game.

QUOTE(Chisoxfn @ Oct 25, 2007 -> 12:05 PM) I've never sucessfully done a beer bong. me neither

QUOTE(Soxy @ Oct 25, 2007 -> 12:02 PM) Is it research methods or tests and measures? Research methods is the suck. research methods a few semesters ago. One of my all-time favorite classes. I was everyone's pain in the ass. I could find confounding in any proposal. Surprised? I also was popular for homework help. I loved the challenge of constructing experiments.

QUOTE(jasonxctf @ Oct 25, 2007 -> 11:48 AM) here's where i'm confused. 1) are these loans made at a 0% rate? 2) what if someone doesn't pay back? 3) does kiva charge a fee? 4) if you are using paypal, don't you get dinged with paypal fees each way/time money is exchanged? 1.) Seems to be 2.) You lose your investment 3.) They ask for a donation. I donated the $2.50 they asked for after I loaned the $25. I'm not certain if they ask for 10% or a flat fee. 4.) Depends on your paypal account. I did not pay a fee to paypal. Usually isn't it the person receiving the money that pays the fee?

QUOTE(Soxy @ Oct 25, 2007 -> 11:33 AM) I think that, when taught well, students often like their stats teacher. Research methods, now, people never like their teacher for that. Wrong. He's one of my favorite and I have him this semester for Theories of Learning and will probably take him again for Psy and Law.

I guess I wasn't clear. SPAM, continue as always. Whatever was happening while a customer, continues after they leave. Incoming Legit email. Forwarded without attachments and in whatever form is easiest for the ISP. Or if it is easier and less expensive, some web based browser interface so they can look. Bottom way, allow the former customer some manner to see who is sending them legit traffic so they can advise that sender about their new address. No outgoing. I can't believe the same ISPs that can afford 30 day free trials will be crippled if they have to forward emails for 60 or 90 days. If their bandwidth is that tight how could they expand if new customers signed up?

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Oct 25, 2007 -> 11:28 AM) The party ISN'T embracing him. The Republican voting base wants someone who they think can beat Hillary, and they think he's it. Plus, again, 9/11. Perhaps I should have said, I can't believe he is polling ahead of . . . ahead of . . . well anyone in that field.

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Oct 25, 2007 -> 10:11 AM) Two words... nine eleven The fact that he screwed the firefighters and site workers after the fact is irrelevant, because its not part of the national perception of his background. Yet. That is starting to change though, and I still feel like he is likely to fall down. I just can't believe the family values party is embracing him. He seems like Slick Willie II and I thought we had put that behind us.

QUOTE(YASNY @ Oct 25, 2007 -> 10:36 AM) Emerson, Lake and Palmer Brain Salad Surgery It will murder you, it murdered me We made it for our enemy Brain Salad Surgery Topic: Perversity Lou Reed Holly came from miami f.l.a. Hitch-hiked her way across the u.s.a. Plucked her eyebrows on the way Shaved her leg and then he was a she She says, hey babe, take a walk on the wild side Next: Computers

QUOTE(southsideirish71 @ Oct 25, 2007 -> 10:26 AM) For my small company. We receive 160k emails for 3000 users, 95.7% of the emails are garbage per day. To limit this, we have to employ a series of security devices and technologies so we are not liable for passing on malware or other items. All of these are at a pretty decent cost. 50k for a email security device, and you need at least 2 for redundancy. Plus subscription updates for virus updates. My T3 is 3500 for the email and browsing, again 2 for redunancy. 30k x 2 for the firewalls that protect the email servers. Then the costs of me to watch it, not that I complain about this. Now take those costs and expand them quite a bit, and you will see the difference in the margin of costs that the ISP has to deal with. Its not like the telephone company at all. The telephone company doesn't transport the phone call to the end, and then relay it across their network eating up their bandwidth and resources. They are able to deal with it via addressing at its perimeter. Phone numbers are also portable. If you really love your phone number, you can port it to another provider. Thats what I did to move to vonage. You can't do that with ISP's and how domain names work with email. There is a slight difference in the size and impact to bandwidth that email deals with. What about troubleshooting when you lose an email. Now you have to deal with 2 companies at least, to find what happened to your email. Each of them will be pointing to the other saying, tell them to fix it. Or we can take some time on our own, and make the changes. If you forwarded each customer who leaves three months, how much would you have to expand? They would not be able to send, so that cuts their traffic down, presumably in half, and it would not be permanent, only for a limited time. I could also see stripping any attachments. For that matter couldn't the forwarded message be dropped all the way down to a simple text message, Dear Former Customer We rejected an email from ABC@123.com to your former address. Please advise them of your new address. Plus, if traffic is coming into you with a faulty address, doesn't that take up bandwidth? Your malware and other programs would not change. When someone leaves, they will continue to receive spam mail for quite some time, so I don't see how that would change with forwarding. And if they do forget to inform someone they are changing ISPs when they receive the reminder and change those records, that cuts down on the future mail you have to deal with.

QUOTE(YASNY @ Oct 25, 2007 -> 10:09 AM) Sorry man. You must have posted it while I was typing. Go with his, folks. I wish I could remember the exact lyrics to an old John Anderson song Look Away. He had a great line about music row in Nashville. Instead Alan Jackson he's been readin' about Nashville and all The records that everybody's buyin' Says 'I'm a simple girl myself Grew up on Long Island' So she packs her bags to try to her hand Says this might be my last chance She's gone country, look at them boots She's gone country, back to her roots She's gone country, a new kind of suit She's gone country, here she comes Topic: One Night Stands

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Oct 25, 2007 -> 09:48 AM) You are also forgetting the big obvious difference between the two... One is run by the government, one is run by public industry. Once you leave as a customer, why should it be up to a for profit entity to take care of you? Are you willing to keep paying them for this extra service, until which time you quit forwarding? If the answer is no, it shouldn't be their burden. Telephone company does it. Isn't that the same?