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SOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooooo!
Don’t believe the signs. I told the cashier, but she didn’t care.
The line at the (misnomer) “service counter” was ten long. My time was worth more than 30 cents. (But I’m annoyed!)
Let’s see if Stop ‘n’ Shope reads my blog!
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“How is it that a team of five people has managed to release to the public more suppressed information, at that level, than the rest of the world press combined? It’s disgraceful.” – Julian Assange
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Couple who lost $800,000 on Million Dollar Drop with correct answer will get a second chance after Fox admits mistake
By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
Last updated at 12:43 AM on 26th December 2010
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On Monday, Gabe Okoye and Brittany Mayt lost $800,000 on the Fox game show Million Dollar Drop.
When asked which was sold first and offered the options Macintosh computer, Sony Walkman or Post-it notes, the couple – mostly driven by Mr Okoye – decided on Post-Its.
To their horror, they were told it was the wrong answer – but it later turned out that it was the game show that was in error.
After their plight became the subject of an Internet uproar – and a minor public relations disaster for Fox – the network has decided that it will give the couple a second chance.
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I bet there are a lot of MBA students, who will know that. Post-It Notes are always used as an example of a “laboratory failure” (i.e., adhesive that doesn’t adhere well) being made into a successful product. “How not to make a lightbulb” isn’t necessarily bad.
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EMAIL FROM LUDDITE FORWARDING SOME SILLY SPAM
“I just hope, for their sake, that each husband goes home with the right table cloth!”
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MY RESPONSE:
There are many things in this world that I just don’t understand. This is one of them. But as an American, I’m sure glad we get to compete with them. The phrase “half my brain tied behind me” comes to mind. When these societies “tie down their women”, it’s truly half their intellectual capital, half their energy, and half their “good ideas” going to waste. I’m not able to get inside a woman’s head, but why would you cooperate. Reminds me of the anti-war quote in CHURCH (*). Yeah, I know everything reminds me of something I wrote. fjohn
(*) “Yes, when we get out of here. We’re going to have to fix that. You know we control something that can get it done. Not the ballot box, but the other box. (A giant sucking sound as pure Miss Marie used that very rude idiom.) We can end war.” — character “Marie” being anti-war in CHURCH 10●19●62 Volume 1 Page 262
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This is a very nice souvenir photograph of 24 newly wedded couples in Enfield, near London.
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Intermittent Problem Sending Email on Verizon FIOS?
PLATFORM = Mac Book Air v1.1
OS = OSX 10.6.5ISP = Verizon FIOS
CLIENT = Thunderbird 3.1.7
FREQUENCY = Intermittent
SCOPE:
All 1and1 accounts are impacted.
Yahoo, GMail, and BlueHost accounts are unaffected.
SYMPTOMS:
THUNDERBIRD attempts to send email.
It either works relatively quickly or eventually fails.
When it fails, the status is EITHER “looking up smtp.1and1.com” OR “sending message”.
Then it never completes.
COMMENT:
It feels like 1and1’s not working correctly.
I can switch network and DNS settings and have the same problem.
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http://www.cnbc.com/id/40791768
Alabama Town’s Failed Pension Is a Warning
STATES, STATE, BUDGET, DEFICIT, PENSION, ALABAMA, PRICHARD, GOVERNMENT, MUNIS, MUNICIPAL BONDS
The New York Times
23 Dec 2010 | 04:39 AM ET
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This struggling small city on the outskirts of Mobile was warned for years that if it did nothing, its pension fund would run out of money by 2009. Right on schedule, its fund ran dry.
Then Prichard did something that pension experts say they have never seen before: it stopped sending monthly pension checks to its 150 retired workers, breaking a state law requiring it to pay its promised retirement benefits in full.
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Far worse was the retired fire marshal who died in June. Like many of the others, he was too young to collect Social Security. “When they found him, he had no electricity and no running water in his house,” said David Anders, 58, a retired district fire chief. “He was a proud enough man that he wouldn’t accept help.”
The situation in Prichard is extremely unusual — the city has sought bankruptcy protection twice — but it proves that the unthinkable can, in fact, sometimes happen. And it stands as a warning to cities like Philadelphia and states like Illinois, whose pension funds are under great strain: if nothing changes, the money eventually does run out, and when that happens, misery and turmoil follow.
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Current city workers could find themselves paying into a pension plan that will not be there for their own retirements. In Prichard, some older workers have delayed retiring, since they cannot afford to give up their paychecks if no pension checks will follow.
So the declining, little-known city of Prichard is now attracting the attention of bankruptcy lawyers, labor leaders, municipal credit analysts and local officials from across the country. They want to see if the situation in Prichard, like the continuing bankruptcy of Vallejo, Calif., ultimately creates a legal precedent on whether distressed cities can legally cut or reduce their pensions, and if so, how.
“Prichard is the future,” said Michael Aguirre, the former San Diego city attorney, who has called for San Diego to declare bankruptcy and restructure its own outsize pension obligations. “We’re all on the same conveyor belt. Prichard is just a little further down the road.”
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A lawyer representing the city, R. Scott Williams, said that the city simply did not have the money. “The reality for Prichard is that if you took money to build the pension up, who’s going to pay the garbage man?” he asked. “Who’s going to pay to run the police department? Who’s going to pay the bill for the street lights? There’s only so much money to go around.”
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And if a company goes bankrupt, the federal government can take over its pension plan and see that its retirees receive their benefits. Although some retirees receive less than they were promised, no retiree from a federally insured plan in the private sector has come away empty-handed since the federal pension law was enacted in 1974. The law does not cover public sector workers.
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If a “company”, another legal fiction, failed this way, then the company’s executives and directors would be in jail. The only worse offense is to fail to pay “taxes”.
So why are NOT these Gooferment officials in jail for the holidays?
Where is the various “high level” Gooferments?
Where are all the Gooferment bureaucrats charge with protecting citizens from the various “Made-offs”?
Just because this is a Gooferment doing the defrauding, it should make NO difference.
It’s called counter party risk.
Immediately, the Federal Gooferment should force all subordinate gooferments to adopt “cash basis” conversion
Argh!
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Flight from hell as US passengers wait seven hours on ground | Irish News | IrishCentral.
Even if the TSA wasn’t enough to put you off. The way that “Big Airlines” treat their Customers is appalling.
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by JIM BERGAMO / KVUE News
Posted on December 22, 2010 at 9:38 PM
Updated yesterday at 9:39 AM
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Early Wednesday morning, a computer glitch shut down a security checkpoint for a couple of hours at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport. The line snaked out the door as many travelers waited for more than an hour and some missed their flights. One of the first people in line after that shutdown never made it through. She was arrested and banned from the airport.
Claire Hirschkind, 56, who says she is a rape victim and who has a pacemaker-type device implanted in her chest, says her constitutional rights were violated. She says she never broke any laws. But the Transportation Security Administration disagrees.
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When Hirschkind refused, she says that “the police actually pushed me to the floor, (and) handcuffed me. I was crying by then. They drug me 25 yards across the floor in front of the whole security.”
An ABIA spokesman says it is TSA policy that anyone activating a security alarm has two options. One is to opt out and not fly, and the other option is to subject themselves to an enhanced pat down. Hirschkind refused both and was arrested.
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Just saw this one.
Just wave goodbye to your Fourth Amendment rights.
“… to be secure in your person …”
Unbelievable.
Wish I could get on that jury!
Stand up, “We, The Sheeple”!
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It’s a real statement about American exceptionalism and toughness!
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Here’s a list of FREE anti-malware sites. You may need them all.
Microsoft http://www.microsoft.com/security/malwareremove/default.aspx
Spybot-S&D http://www.safer-networking.org/en/spybotsd/index.html
Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/
Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.php
Avira AntiVir http://www.avira.com/en/free-download-avira-antivir-personal
Panda Cloud Antivirus http://acs.pandasoftware.com/cloud/PandaCloudAntivirus.exe
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