RANT: Ipods are stimulating?

Friday, February 12, 2010

http://www.baynews9.com/content/36/2010/2/11/582040.html

UPDATE: Polk Schools won’t proceed with iPod incentive

Thursday, February 11, 2010

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POLK COUNTY (Bay News 9) — The Polk County school district has decided to suspend a program that would have given away iPods to some parents.

The school district was going to use the device to reward parents of children with disabilities who filled out a 10-minute online survey.

The money was going to come from a federal government program for developmentally disabled students. About $150,000 would have been spent on the iPods.

The money from the federal government program cannot be used for salaries or bonuses, but must go towards other expenditures.

   * Press release from Polk County School District

Correction: Our original story incorrectly said money for the iPods was from federal stimulus funds. The money the district was going to use is from the federal government and is to be used specifically for programs for developmentally disabled students. It is separate from federal stimulus dollars.

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Argh!

This is typical of the way the Feds spend our money!

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SOFTWARE: TEAMVIEWER recommended

Friday, February 12, 2010

When the screen died on my Mac Book Air, unless you twist the top bezel, I thought I was screwed until Apple can fix it.

1-3 days for parts; 1-3 days for repair.

Argh!

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GAMBLING: Expanding casinos will lead to Chapter 11 all around

Friday, February 12, 2010

— On Tue, 2/2/10, Casino City Times News Desk <newsletter@mail.casinocity.com> wrote:

From: Casino City Times News Desk <newsletter@mail.casinocity.com>
Subject: Casino City Times: Delaware approves table games for racetrack casinos

On Feb 2, 2010, at 8:42 AM, Luddite wrote:

Nice slot strategy, and table games at Delaware Park and Dover? Cool. LV continues to suffer over years from not being the only place to gamble…still has the magic though.

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I think imho that they (the politicians) are going to kill their own “golden goose”. “Gambling” doesn’t help build the mindset of a vigorous energetic people building “wealth”. I have read some stuff that it impoverishes the bottom strata and extracts net 15% from the local economy. In addition, all the venues makes it less “special” and divides the pie in to infinitesimally small slices that can’t support economic activity. Thus, their “slice” wanes over time. imho!

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