TECH: EPONYM drops free blog hosting

Wednesday, October 11, 2006

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Starting November 1st Eponym will start providing a free 30 day trial blog and will be discontinuing our free blog package. For those of you who are using our free blog package, you will be automatically moved to the free 30 day trial package on November 1st. At the end of the 30 day trial (November 30th), your blog will need to be upgraded for your blog to remain active.

If you wish to keep your blog active, please go to https://secure.eponym.com/upgrade/ to upgrade.

It was a hard decision for us to stop offering the free blog package, however there were two major factors that influenced us. First, we did not like having to put advertisements on people’s blogs. We know that our users would put up with the ads to have a free blog, but we don’t want you to have to “put up” with anything, especially an invasive and annoying ad on your blog that you can’t control. Second, the advertising revenue from the free blogs that we did receive was not nearly enough to cover the costs of providing the free blogs. Looking at these two reasons, we knew that we had to make a change to keep Eponym going strong.

We apologize for the inconvenience that this causes for some of you, but we feel that it is absolutely necessary for us to continue to provide the best blogging service, software, and community on the Internet.

Thank you for using Eponym!

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Hmmm. Bad news for anyone who has content there.

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TECH: OPERA9 is impressive

Wednesday, October 11, 2006

http://www.opera.com/

It’s blazing fast. Does email, rss, and bittorrent. Wow.

AND, it’s free!

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TECH: PRINTERALL — I like it.

Wednesday, October 11, 2006

http://www/printeranywhere.com

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PrinterAnywhere is a solution to print documents from a computer connected to the Internet to other people’s printers on the network. With PrinterAnywhere you can share your printers with other or print your documents on someone else’s printer.

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I like it. It’s useful. I use it. It’s free!

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GUNS: “Gun Control” should read “Victim Disarmerment” or “Hitting What You Aim At”

Wednesday, October 11, 2006

Bush Summit To Discuss Solutions For School Violence
— Great opportunity for GOA to show politicos facts, not emotions

Gun Owners of America E-Mail Alert
8001 Forbes Place, Suite 102, Springfield, VA 22151
Phone: 703-321-8585 / FAX: 703-321-8408
http://www.gunowners.org

Tuesday, October 10, 2006

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As GOA pointed out last week:

1. No amount of gun control would have stopped Charles Carl Roberts from acquiring guns to commit his atrocity. Roberts had a clean record and would have passed any and every background check.

2. The so-called “gun free school zones” have to go. Such disarmament zones never stop bad guys from taking guns into a restricted area. In fact, statistics show that the jurisdictions that ban guns tend to be the same areas with the highest murder or crime rates (Washington, D.C., England, etc.).

3. The only school shootings that have been stopped prematurely were ended because law-abiding citizens had guns — such as in Pearl Mississippi (1997) and at the Appalachian School of Law (2002), where faculty and responsible adults were able to bring their own defensive firearms to bear. This is an idea that Americans support, as 85% of the American public find it appropriate for a principal or teacher to use “a gun at school to defend the lives of students” in stopping a school massacre (Research 2000 Poll).

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It is interesting that people seem to feel that we can not trust Principals, Teachers, and Custodians. Should they choose to do so, I’d trust them with the tools that they need to protect the children in their care. I think they can tell the bad guys from the kids. Bad guys where black hats, right?

Further, I would presume that bringing a weapon on school grounds is protected by the Second Amendment. Using it to harm others has not.

Hence just in case any trial lawyers want to make a case for suing a person defending themselves or others, I make a rule granting them immunity from criminal prosecution or civil action should they make a reasonable mistake.

“Oh I’m sorry I shot you Mister Wack Job before you actually killed any little children with your Uzi that you brought into my school.” should not be a grievance heard by courts. It should be a story for the Leno or Letterman show.

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RANT: Throw the bums out. So what if the new bums aren’t any better. We’ll throw them out next time!

Wednesday, October 11, 2006

http://www.ncc-1776.org/tle2006/tle388-20061008-04.html

Don’t Get Mad, Get Even
by Jack Duggan

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DON’T VOTE FOR EVEN ONE INCUMBENT

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Sounds like a plan to me.

Throw the bums out. So what if the new bums aren’t any better. We’ll throw them out next time!

Instead of a 98% reelection rate, it should be zero.

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LIBERTY: Support the troops by bringing them home NOW!

Wednesday, October 11, 2006

http://www.ncc-1776.org/tle2006/tle388-20061008-03.html

One Answer to Vance’s “Supporting the Troops”
by James Glaser

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At the end of Vance’s column he says another thing that I and all veterans can get behind.

And when they are all home—from Iraq and everywhere else in the world—I support using the troops to actually patrol our coasts and guard our borders. I support the troops so much that I don’t want them sent to fight any more foreign wars.

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Return to the original intent of the Constitution. No entangling alliances. We aren’t, shouldn’t be, and can’t be the world’s policeman. Nor can we afford it.

imho

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LIBERTY: You have to like someone who can make you think

Wednesday, October 11, 2006

http://darianworden.tripod.com/prop/posters.html

I particularly liked “PATRIOTISM: America was created by people who always obeyed the government”

SAFE FOR WORK

SAFE but UNSETTLING

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