This picture was taken from the latest issue of American Rifleman (June 2013, page 18). Elsewhere in the same issue, there was another article on a similar strain (“U. S. Lawmakers Trying to Ban Before They Understand”, page 88) and in that article when it refers to this comment, a spokesperson clarifies the statement at left, “…she simply misspoke in referring to ‘magazines’ when she should have referred to ‘clips’, which cannot be reused because they don’t have a feeding mechanism”. Well, I guess we now know why her statement, if it was a prepared statement and spoken from a script, was never caught by her staff.
It’s one thing to strongly support your constituents, but come on!!, at least know what you are talking about.
People – think before you vote!!
]]>NetFlix, at first, seemed pretty cool. Loaded up our queue with some movies and watched away…. the first week or 10 days we had the Sony. Lately, while trying to watch “Teas of the Sun”, our experience has been terrible. Last Saturday was the first attempt at watching this title and we gave up after the first 20 minutes of the movie. In that 20 minute time frame, we probably experienced at least 5 buffering episodes, probably 10!
Tonight, we are about 75 minutes into the movie, in movie time. In actual time, we are now up to a good 150 minutes. At times, the movie has buffered every two or three minutes. At best, we managed to get about 15 minutes of viewing time before the stream buffered again.
Calling support was useless. The rep insisted that everything under the sun was at fault, as long as it did not include anything related to NetFlix. The rep was doing his best to absolve NetFlix from any responsibility. Right now, I am on a free trial of NetFlix. I am pretty sure that I will not become a paying customer again. They got about two weeks to astound the hell out of me to make up for the crappy experience I had with “Tears of the Sun”.
And…. I did not even mention the lack of a decent selection of movies as a streaming customer.
Nor did I mention the one little glitch I had with Hulu – on Saturday, I got all settled in to watch some “No Ordinary Family” on Hulu and I got an error message about the service being unavailable. Being a new customer, I did not know what this meant or if it was common. I e-mailed tech support (something NetFlix could really take a hint with), and before I sent the e-mail, the service was up and running again. It may have been down for a while, but I only noted the problem for less than a minute. Before my show started however, I had already received a reply from Hulu’s tech support – they credited my account with a weeks free service because of the inconvenience I had.
Sure, Hulu is mainly TV and NetFlix is mainly movies, but I know who I’ll give my money and loyalty to….
]]>Check it out for a 320 by 240 view or Check it out for a 640 by 480 view
Remember the user name and password if prompted is “user” and “pass”.
Have Fun!!
]]>Then I got to looking at what Textpattern is, what it can do, and how it can do it. Boy, have I opened up a can of worms for myself (I say that and mean, I have some learning to do — CMS, CSS, XHTML, XML, oh my!).
Without the book “Textpattern Solutions” by Potts, Sable, and Smith (with Fredborg and Lindley), I would have never been able to get started, let alone, keep going. The text takes you through every step of the process, all the way from downloading the needed software, setting up the programs and permissions, thru explaining each and every bit of the interface, right up to some advanced features.
I bought my copy from Amazon, I’m sure it is available at many other locations.
RAM I could in the 8 year old Dell Dimension, just like Scotty used to tell Captain Kirk all the time — “I’m giving her all she’s got Captain, she can’t take no more!” Even with all I could put in the ol’ girl, she could only take 2 GB of RAM. Enough to keep her going, but far from what she needed.
I put all theAs far as hard drive space, well, every USB port and every IDE channel was taken up. No room left at all to do anything, space-wise. There were symlinks upon symlinks keeping the file system all in one piece.
Ever since I really discovered Ubuntu a few months ago, I’ve been mulling this change over in my mind. Ubuntu has got it’s act together and I think this new machine will do just fine for me. 8 GB or RAM and a dual core processor, so the new machine is running the 64 bit version of the latest release 10.10. I initially wanted to go with the Server version of 10.10, but it was a real pain in the ass – I ended up loading the desktop version and I stripped a few things out of it. I’ll strip some more as the days go by.
Most of the links on this site are up and running again, but there is still some work to be done.
]]>Sears is voluntarily paying the difference in salaries and maintaining all benefits, including medical insurance and bonus programs, for all called up reservist employees for up to two years.
I submit that Sears is an exemplary corporate citizen and should be recognized for its contribution. I suggest we all shop at Sears at least once, and be sure to find a manager to tell them why we are there so the company gets the positive reinforcement & feedback it well deserves.
A lot of articles like this one circulate the ‘net all the time nowadays… more often than not, they are made up. These articles can be verified at Snopes. This one is verified by me Here is the link.
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