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join:2005-03-19 | Re: Bday I turned 28 today. :P Happy bday btw. | |
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| | | | Re: Bday And to you as well sir. Nice avatar; did you catch the roast of "The Hoff" on Comedy Central?
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kudos:1 | Re: Bday Yeah, I was going to watch it, but I was too busy eating cheeseburgers of the kitchen floor while wrecked.. 
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|  camaro92Question everythingPremium
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Westfield, MA | i have until the 9th,29 a little bit longer god do i feel better i am not the only one turning 30 happy B day to all Virgo's. | |
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|  PhoenixDown-- Wants FIOSPremium
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kudos:1 | My bday is this weekend too!!!
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| |  Noah VailSon made my AvatarPremium
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| Re: Bday Well Happy Stinking Birthday.
My Sister's is Sept. 11.
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| | | garywk
join:2001-03-06
Clarkston, WA | Re: Bday So is mine.
That was an interesting morning watching my bday become even more historically significant. Ben Franklin had already made it historically significant by publishing Rules By Which A Great Empire May Be Reduced To A Small One on 9/11/1773. It's quite relevant for the US today by just replacing the idea of remote provinces with states and homeland citizens. | |
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|  Irish SharkPlay Like A Champion TodayPremium,MVM
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kudos:3 | I turned XX today. Born on Labor Day 9/6/19xx | |
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| | | Re: Earl misses Jersey Shore yeah my friend lives in NYC and they did not even get any rain. | |
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| | HTC EVO Apps! Downloading some amazing apps on my HTC Evo!!!!!! I love Handcents SMS!! | |
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| | | Re: crap Try the harder stuff it might work better.
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Chandler, AZ | bittersweet... kind of a bittersweet weekend. my father passed away a week ago in a remote part of new mexico of a massive stroke and cardiac arrest. i was traveling on business at the time and was not able to catch a flight quick enough to see him before he passed away -- the last time i had seen him was several weeks prior for lunch. he was only 56, drank very little, ate well, and was very active. he had just signed his contract to become a full time teacher two weeks before.
while i hate to sound preachy, make time for those who you love. time is fleeting -- way too fast for anyone's comfort.
q.
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| | | Re: bittersweet... My sincere condolences. It is tough when you lose a parent, even when they are much older. It is especially tough when they die at a relatively young age. | |
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Smithtown, NY
kudos:3 | So sorry to hear that. My condolences to you.
I agree totally with your statement about cherishing your loved ones.
Hope you have a good weekend in spite of the recent events.. | |
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| tubbynetreminds me of the danse russePremium,MVM
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his final sendoff... |
it was rough -- but he died where he loved being. he was at home and at peace. my brother and i sent him off the way he wanted -- 10,500 feet above sea level overlooking arizona and new mexico.
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Clarkston, WA | Re: bittersweet... I scattered my old man's ashes at the base of a Sugar Pine in the Blue Mountains of Eastern Oregon overlooking the breaks of the Umatilla River. He was a logger, a timber faller, for most of his life and absolutely loved the mountains. They were the only place he was ever truly at home. | |
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| PhoenixDown-- Wants FIOSPremium
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kudos:1 | My condolences to you and your family. 
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| budone
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| said by tubbynet:k while i hate to sound preachy, make time for those who you love. time is fleeting -- way too fast for anyone's comfort. q. I am sorry for your loss. Today, is my parents anniversary. They both have been gone ten years this year.
I so agree with what you said. Make time and tell them often how you feel. | |
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| | 2 Day Weekend! With monday off, I officially have my first 2 day weekend in quite a while (memorial day).
I plan to celebrate by brewing several beers and with the cool weather in the midwest, that turns out to be a might fine idea indeed!
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| Re: 2 Day Weekend! What is this 'weekend' thing of which you speak?
I was supposed to have today and tomorrow off, but the on call phone hasn't stopped ringing. Got calls scheduled for today and tomorrow now. The only thing that makes it worth while is double time and a half for tomorrow.
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| Re: Don't be evil Realize you're getting FedEx's hyperbole, the way they want you to.
UPS is profitable. So, it's definitely hyperbole to say USP is being "bailed out."
I've read a little about this dispute. If what I've read is true, FedEx looks like they're the ones with an image problem. Their drivers are independent contractors who FedEx doesn't have to pay Social Security or benefits.
This all seems to originate from FedEx's original corporate structure as an airline, not a ground-delivery service. (And, exacerbated by UPS getting into express delivery using its own air fleet.).
A good overview here.
I'm not a big fan of labor unions. Nor any type of fan of UPS. But, there's more to it than FedEx's depiction. The two companies are governed by different laws due to their origins, which neither company resembles today. One could say FedEx is the unjustified beneficiary of this imbalance, and UPS has a legitimate interest in leveling the playing field. | |
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UPS is trying to slip a chg into a new FAA reauthorization bill that would chg FedEx's relations with their unions out of the "Railway Labor Act"(where all airline unions are regulated now) in to the "National Labor Relations Act".
So, who cares? Well the Railway Act makes it darn near impossible to strike. The gov't can impose very long cool off periods and virtually stop a strike in its tracks. It can take up to 18 months before a strike can actually happen.
The National Labor Relations Act makes it much easier to strike and gives unions more leverage in contract negotiations. UPS operates under these rules.
Obviously FedEx(which is more airline than trucking company) wants to stay under airline rules. UPS wants FedEx to get stuck with the higher costs that stronger unions can force.
Do you care? Well if UPS wins, then FedEx prices will rise and so will UPSs as well. I'm rooting for FedEx. | |
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| Re: Don't be evil said by fAcEtIOUs:Do you care? Well if UPS wins, then FedEx prices will rise and so will UPSs as well. I'm rooting for FedEx. I think they should both be governed by the same labor laws. There was a significant difference between them 20 years ago, before FedEx got into "ground" shipping (and before UPS bought its own air fleet and got into "express" shipping).
Aside from that, I don't care which way it goes. But, FedEx is being disingenuous to claim they're an airline and shouldn't be subject to the same labor laws UPS is.
Perhaps UPS should be subject to the same law as FedEx. (But, that would be a difficult Pandora's box to un-open.).
I don't care. But, UPS has a legitimate point. Nobody would get that from FedEx's self-serving web site and videos about "bailouts." | |
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Chicago, IL | I've worked for both UPS and FedEx and both companies have their share of problems.
FedEx takes the "threat" of unionization very seriously. I was on the leadership fast track when I happened to suggest that employees whose work day is strictly scheduled, like call center and ground ops workers, and therefore unable to attend company meetings and other events, should be allowed to delegate a co-worker who can speak up for them at such events.....this, somehow, was mistaken for "union activity" and the company found a way to show me to the door shortly thereafter.
Having said that, I should add that FedEx employees, at least the Express ones, are treated very well. The company has an unofficial policy to never lay off workers so that workers feel secure in their jobs, therefore are more loyal. Wages are competitive (although generally lower than UPS), benefits are very generous and policies are very fair and favor the employees...even if short sighted managers occasionally find a way to subvert the intention of such policies.
If you're willing to drink the kool-aid, FedEx is easily one of the best places to work.
FedEx Ground is a slightly different story because most of its couriers are classified as contractors - illegally in my opinion....and the company is in trouble because of this.
UPS, well, represents what you'd expect a stereotypical unionized company to be. Wages and work conditions are excellent thanks to collective bargaining. However, one must pay his dues before being let into "the club" and afforded the rights and privileges enjoyed by the tenured workers. There is always just-below-the-surface animosity between labor and management. But generally, the company finds a way to make it work. Also, it's a geek heaven....UPS is leaps and bounds ahead of FedEx when it comes to technology.
If you're nostalgic for the old-timey employer-employee relationship where you work at the same place your whole life and can retire with a gold watch and a pension, UPS is the place for you. And I mean that as a compliment. If, on the other hand, you like to shake things up and think outside the box, best not end up working at UPS.
As for this little shell game of claiming bailouts and unfair advantages...both companies are guilty. FedEx doesn't want to give up its airline status due to labor advantages and UPS calls its delivery trucks "package cars" to circumvent paying higher insurance premiums on its fleet. It's typical corporate bullshit.
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kudos:5 | The long weekend has begun... in my mind.
I awoke at 5:55AM Friday morning believing it was Saturday morning. At ~6:05AM I figured out it was not Saturday at all, but Friday!
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|  John GaltForward, MarchPremium
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Happy Camp
kudos:3 | Re: The long weekend has begun... said by Snowy:Needless to say, the disappointment was real. Oh, so you got an extra day out of it...and you're complaining.
Remember this on the day you draw your last breath...
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| 300 Tons of Failed BOP- Cut Away -Slowly Reeled on in The Mecado Well BOP is s-l-o-w-l-y returning to land. It'll be carefully scrutinized for evidence of wrongdoing by BP.
said by SL Trib : BP PLC said the blowout preventer that failed to stop oil from spewing into the Gulf of Mexico was removed from the company’s well on Friday afternoon. The process of raising it to the surface was to be painstaking because engineers want to make sure not to damage or drop the contraption. The blowout preventer wasn’t expected to reach the surface until Saturday, at which point government investigators will take possession of it. A BP spokesman said in an e-mail to The Associated Press that the 50-foot, 300-ton device was detached from the wellhead at 1:20 p.m CDT. Earlier in the day, a vessel had latched onto the equipment to raise it from a mile beneath the sea. Undersea video showed the device suspended in the water. A crane on the Helix Q4000 was being used for the task. The blowout preventer is considered a key piece of evidence in the spill investigation. Investigators will examine it and hope to gain insight into why the device failed to prevent the spill. »www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqrxnnGTR7M
You can watch it demerge, de-submerge, emerge, whatever.
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| The weekend. G/f car things to do.
Oil pan gasket, 2 cv joints, new battery terminals, new gas shocks for the hood (thing about killed me checking oil and it goes down on your head)
So far shocks and terminals and all the oil pan bolts are out as of 10:30
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Dont you just love it when DUMB people work on cars?
Example: Dont use a gasket but use a shit load of rv sealant to seal a oil pan from leaking ( guess what dumb asses its leaking). Now the oil pan is stuck, and im going to have to carefully have to rubber hammer it, and use a pan head screw driver to get this thing off.
Talk about shade tree work.
If your going to do a job, do it FUCKING RIGHT and by the BOOK.
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| | Facebook & Pogo I just quit both. Did the hard cancellation with Pogo after I discovered they still stored my credit card, besides other irregularities.
Quite Facebook because I don't trust them. My favorite movie is "Love Actually" but I can't stand "The Notebook". Help me. | |
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| | | Re: Facebook & Pogo said by Quibble28:I just quit both. Did the hard cancellation with Pogo after I discovered they still stored my credit card, besides other irregularities. Quite Facebook because I don't trust them. My favorite movie is "Love Actually" but I can't stand "The Notebook". Help me. Glad someone woke up. Only 400 million to go.
You're right not to trust FB, Pogo, or any online entity with your info - but the abuse potential we see in 2010 is nothing compared to what we'll experience 10 and 20 years from now, when the next generation grows up thinking "friend tracking gps" and bio-metric paydays are the norm.
"Why would you want to remove your chip? Without it, you can't get your free McNuggets breakfast at the indoctrination center?"
"Why would you want to turn off your PersonalTrackMapper? How will you find your way to the Community Organizing Centre to learn El Presidente'-for-Life's worship song of the day?"
"Why would you disconnect your DemoCare health monitor? Without it, you won't get your automatic Soma refill at the at the Department of Rations?"
"What, you fooled your Remote Control Home Thermostat to warm your house above 68 degrees? The Central Heating Patrol will surely fine you for Consumption in Excess of Defined Need."
What no one seems to realize, is that the surrender of our liberties won't come the result of Evil Republicans - everyone will volunteer to give up their privacy, out of convenience or for a payoff. | |
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| Re: Facebook & Pogo said by CallMeRay :
What no one seems to realize, is that the surrender of our liberties won't come the result of Evil Republicans - everyone will volunteer to give up their privacy, out of convenience or for a payoff.
But, that's the way it's always been.
- The founding generation overreacted to their newfound independence with the relatively libertarian Articles of Confederation. When that didn't work well, after just 12 years, they tossed it in preference of the larger, more powerful, efficient and centralized remote federal government of 1789.
At the time, there were Chicken Littles predicting oppression, unchecked authoritanism, etc. In some ways they were correct. For example the Alien and Sedition Act of 1798. But, we don't know how a nation of (loosely) confederated states would have fared under the threat of war from France in 1798. It was precisely such ineffectiveness which prompted the founding generation to ditch the Aritcles of Confederation in 1788.
- The civil war generation granted the federal government a huge increase of power through the 14th Amendment. Giving the federal government direct jurisdiction over citizens of each state, and enforcement of the Bill of Rights against state infringement (previously it was limited to only Congressional infringement).
At the time, there were Chicken Littles predicting oppression, unchecked authoritanism, etc. In some ways they were correct. There has been a vast increase in federal power (FHA, EPA, DOE, etc.). On the other hand, we don't know how things would have gone if states were free to reinstitute slavery through laws denying unpopular classes of persons their right to assemble, speak, vote, possess weapons.
I suspect that, as technology bumps up against privacy, we'll see enactment of greater controls over a corporation's use of customer information. And, over the government's use too (probably in the form of a National ID to eliminate the existing charade that there is no national ID, as the government buys information from Lexus-Nexus, who operates without any controls).
So, it's not that the Chicken Littles are wrong. It doesn't end with the consequence they predict. It's just one continuum of social/industrial/technological advancement. Each step having its own consequences, leading to new attempts to improve based upon the latest experience. | |
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| | |  KrKHeavy Artillery For The Little GuyPremium
join:2000-01-17
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| Re: Facebook & Pogo I'm not so sure.
Corporate power over Government legislators and regulators has been growing by leaps and bounds.
I'm not sure how much regulation we'll see in this area as the idea is taking hold that whatever is good for big Business is good for the American people. Which, of course, is patently false.
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| | Craigslist ends sex ads over pressure from states attorneys
Bad news for Craigslist users who like to peruse the Erotic Services Adult Services section of their site. It’s gone, replaced by a large black and white “censored” logo.
The site has been embattled as old press and state attorneys general use any excuse to blame sex crimes on the site. From South Carolina Attorney General Henry McMaster’s failed crusade against them to a variety of press stories about sex and other crimes. If it’s just a sex crime it isn’t a story. But if a listing on Craigslist was involved, it’s a big story. Not surprising they caved after the recent cases of rape & murder tied to their ads. Criminal actions and civil lawsuits would destroy them if they didn't. | |
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| | | Re: Craigslist ends sex ads over pressure from states attorneys Of course, this won't stop the ads. They may disappear from the "Adult" Services section(now CENSORED).
But they will show up here instead:
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| Re: Craigslist ends sex ads over pressure from states attorneys said by fAcEtIOUs:Of course, this won't stop the ads. They may disappear from the "Adult" Services section(now CENSORED). But they will show up here instead: I'm a little irritated.
I had to figure out how to program the proxy servers, to block only the inappropriate material on craigslist. I finished that 2 weeks ago.
Now it's no longer an issue?
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A Fox News poll released Friday found that 78 percent of voters favor establishing term limits for Congress. That’s nearly five times as many as oppose limiting the number of terms members can serve (16 percent). Large majorities of Republicans (84 percent), Democrats (74 percent) and independents (74 percent) favor the idea. Full poll: » www.foxnews.com/projects/pdf/090···_web.pdf
P.S.>> Term limits exist in some states, but it will take a constitutional amendment to apply term limits to members of Congress. | |
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| 4am Fire.. Pretty fun Had a lovely wake up from our loud ass fire alarm. someone on our floor either feel asleep with a cig.. or late night cooking and passed out.. it was a heavy smoke though so i dunno what the hell it was truthfully..
All i know is that the Fire Dept took 5mins to get here and another 30mins to secure the area and let everyone back in.. awesome weekend so far. | |
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