Re: Virginia Judge: The Suit Against the Health Care Law Goes Forward

2010-08-03 Thread denstar
DAMN Obama can rock a conversation, neh? I hoped for change and I got it. Most of it good, too, which for politics, is like knocking it out of the freaking park. :Den -- The analysis of concepts is for the understanding nothing more than what the magnifying glass is for sight. Moses Mendelsso

Re: Todo program

2010-08-03 Thread denstar
On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 5:53 PM, Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote: > > http://gcn.com/Articles/2010/08/02/Review-of-Powerhouse-Notebooks.aspx?admgarea=TC_LABREVIEWS&Page=2 > > In this review, it tested as the 2nd fastest windows machinerunning on > bootcamp though. The batter life was nifty. I wonder

Off to Pickathon

2010-08-03 Thread Judah McAuley
I'm off in the morning to Pickathon, a music festival held at a friends farm. Now in it's 11th year, it has about 2,000 folks or so and sprawls over 80 acres of mostly wooded farmland. 4 stages, one workshop barn, spontaneous jams through the woods, music from 10 am to 2 am Friday through Sunday (

Re: Summertime Blues: 100 stimulus projects that give taxpayers the blues

2010-08-03 Thread Judah McAuley
On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 7:27 PM, Jerry Barnes wrote: > > "Actually, I think that there are supposed to be audit agencies within the > government for these things. " > > That's like the fox guarding the hen house. I do think that there is a role for independent agencies within the government struc

Re: In the Cloud Virtual Office folder

2010-08-03 Thread Erika L. Rich
Yeah, I had it at a friend's over the weekend and their 'net was much faster. The first bunch finished pretty quickly. I'm not going anywhere this week though. It's ok, I don't mind. It's all in the background. 21GB so far ... 27GB more to go ... That might earn me a "go get a bottle of wine" st

Re: In the Cloud Virtual Office folder

2010-08-03 Thread Cameron Childress
On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 6:11 PM, Erika L. Rich wrote: > I'm down to 25 hours to go on this latest batch. Went from "Get a snickers" > to "47 days" to 25 hrs. Gotta love fluctuating DSL speeds. :) You might be able to get to a location with faster upspeeds long enough to get everything uploaded.

Re: Summertime Blues: 100 stimulus projects that give taxpayers the blues

2010-08-03 Thread Jerry Barnes
Oops. It's "accept", not "except". J - I never thought this day would happen. . . . I won’t have to work on putting gas in my car. I won’t have to work at paying my mortgage. You know. If I help him, he’s gonna help me. - Peggy Josep ~~~

Re: Summertime Blues: 100 stimulus projects that give taxpayers the blues

2010-08-03 Thread Jerry Barnes
"Actually, I think that there are supposed to be audit agencies within the government for these things. " That's like the fox guarding the hen house. "The help of media working to bring those reports to light would be quite helpful though. A report that no one reads is kind of a waste." The wa

Re: Virginia Judge: The Suit Against the Health Care Law Goes Forward

2010-08-03 Thread Jerry Barnes
"That is exactly how the Justice Department is trying to characterize it.." But, but, but, . . .President Obama said it wasn't a tax. Obama: Mandate is Not a Tax STEPHANOPOULOS: You were against the individual mandate...

RE: Virginia Judge: The Suit Against the Health Care Law Goes Forward

2010-08-03 Thread Eric Roberts
That is not Obama...Obama has been quite clear that it is a penalty for not complying...not a tax. -Original Message- From: Robert Munn [mailto:cfmuns...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2010 9:09 PM To: cf-community Subject: Re: Virginia Judge: The Suit Against the Health Care Law G

Re: Summertime Blues: 100 stimulus projects that give taxpayers the blues

2010-08-03 Thread Robert Munn
On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 5:30 PM, Judah McAuley wrote: >> Isn't that what the media is for? > > Actually, I think that there are supposed to be audit agencies within > the government for these things. The help of media working to bring > those reports to light would be quite helpful though. A repo

Re: Virginia Judge: The Suit Against the Health Care Law Goes Forward

2010-08-03 Thread Robert Munn
That is exactly how the Justice Department is trying to characterize it... http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/18/health/policy/18health.html?_r=2&ref=politics On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 4:59 PM, Eric Roberts wrote: > > Except that Obama isn't trying to characterize it as a tax... > > -Original Me

Re: Summertime Blues: 100 stimulus projects that give taxpayers the blues

2010-08-03 Thread Judah McAuley
On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 4:32 PM, Jerry Barnes wrote: > "It would be nice to see a non-partisan investigation of all the projects to > see whether the projects were well conceived in the first place and how > their results measure up to > their initial applications. I'm sure that there are a number

RE: Virginia Judge: The Suit Against the Health Care Law Goes Forward

2010-08-03 Thread Eric Roberts
Except that Obama isn't trying to characterize it as a tax... -Original Message- From: Robert Munn [mailto:cfmuns...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2010 8:16 PM To: cf-community Subject: Re: Virginia Judge: The Suit Against the Health Care Law Goes Forward That's just a sideline.

Re: Virginia Judge: The Suit Against the Health Care Law Goes Forward

2010-08-03 Thread Robert Munn
That's just a sideline. The main event is the suit against the health care law. VA is not the only state challenging the individual purchasing mandate. No question in my mind that this suit eventually gets to the Supreme Court and the individual mandate will be struck down. The Obama Administratio

Re: Todo program

2010-08-03 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
http://gcn.com/Articles/2010/08/02/Review-of-Powerhouse-Notebooks.aspx?admgarea=TC_LABREVIEWS&Page=2 In this review, it tested as the 2nd fastest windows machinerunning on bootcamp though. On Jul 30, 2010, at 3:57 PM, denstar wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 7:16 AM, Cameron Childress

Every episode of the best comedy show ever!

2010-08-03 Thread Kris Sisk
http://watchwliia.blogspot.com/ I love this show. ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusio

Re: Summertime Blues: 100 stimulus projects that give taxpayers the blues

2010-08-03 Thread Jerry Barnes
"A list, I might add, that already had to be changed by the Senators because it turns out that they were a wee bit less than honest with their cherry picking:" I warned that it was partisan. Tom and John are trying to bring even more bad light on the Democrats before November. "It's a shame, r

Re: Newsweek bought for $1

2010-08-03 Thread denstar
On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 7:54 AM, Jerry Johnson wrote: ... > For me it is a shame, since I _like_ the people on this list, and would love > to hear their thoughts on most any topic. Without everything having to turn > into a political us vs them. Since in my mind, despite all the voices > spewing al

RE: spam advice

2010-08-03 Thread Scott Raley
I've done that in the past and it doesn't work well to mix gmail and exchange. -Original Message- From: Maureen [mailto:mamamaur...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2010 6:20 PM To: cf-community Subject: Re: spam advice Use gmail as a pop server for the mail and outlook to download

Re: spam advice

2010-08-03 Thread Maureen
Use gmail as a pop server for the mail and outlook to download. On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 2:55 PM, Scott Raley wrote: > > Can't use gmail. I already demo'd it with shared calendars and try to move > public folders to google doc's and they didn't go for that. > > -Original Message- > From: M

Re: In the Cloud Virtual Office folder

2010-08-03 Thread Erika L. Rich
Ha! I'm at 36% of 50GB. I'm hoping I don't need the 100GB plan, but it's not much if I do. I also love the fact that they keep revision history in case I want a file from 5 changes ago. I'm down to 25 hours to go on this latest batch. Went from "Get a snickers" to "47 days" to 25 hrs. Gotta love

RE: spam advice

2010-08-03 Thread Eric Roberts
That is true...gmail's spam filters are awesome. -Original Message- From: Maureen [mailto:mamamaur...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2010 5:46 PM To: cf-community Subject: Re: spam advice Gmail. I had the same problem with a client until I set up all of his domains to use gmail

RE: spam advice

2010-08-03 Thread Scott Raley
Can't use gmail. I already demo'd it with shared calendars and try to move public folders to google doc's and they didn't go for that. -Original Message- From: Maureen [mailto:mamamaur...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2010 5:46 PM To: cf-community Subject: Re: spam advice Gmail.

RE: spam advice

2010-08-03 Thread Scott Raley
The domain in question is paxpartnership.org not me. -Original Message- From: Justin Scott [mailto:jscott-li...@gravityfree.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2010 5:32 PM To: cf-community Subject: RE: spam advice > told me one thing set my firewall to only allow smtp > connections from p

RE: spam advice

2010-08-03 Thread Eric Roberts
Lookup spambayes...it's a Outlook plugin that is(or at least was) free and works great. It's a smart filter that gets trained as you go along. After about a month or so, it's pretty well trained and you get very few false positives. Eric -Original Message- From: Scott Raley [mailto:sra

Re: Email Archiving - Do we need it?

2010-08-03 Thread Maureen
It's better to have it and not need it, than need it and not have it. HR litigation is growing and the more documentation you have to support your side of a legal action, the better off you will be. On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 1:26 PM, C. Hatton Humphrey wrote: > > The question was posed to me today

Re: spam advice

2010-08-03 Thread Maureen
Gmail. I had the same problem with a client until I set up all of his domains to use gmail for business. On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 2:17 PM, Scott Raley wrote: > > Any suggestions other than creating a postini safe senders list (last ditch > effort)? ~~

Re: Summertime Blues: 100 stimulus projects that give taxpayers the blues

2010-08-03 Thread Maureen
I concur. I wonder how much putting this list together cost the taxpayer. Probably considerably more than some of the projects on it. On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 1:07 PM, Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote: > > I believe the biggest waste of money is paying 100 buffoons to try and > entertain us with their i

RE: Email Archiving - Do we need it?

2010-08-03 Thread Sisk, Kris
Email archiving can be a good CYA tactic in some cases. The one that immediately leaps to my mind is harassment cases, but I'm sure there are others. From what you describe I'd guess you probably don't NEED email archiving but it wouldn't be a bad idea to take a second look. We have a monster of a

RE: spam advice

2010-08-03 Thread Justin Scott
> told me one thing set my firewall to only allow smtp > connections from postini which I can't because she > didn't pay for the entire office to have postini. First, you need to address your MX records, which are currently: 20 alt1.aspmx.l.google.com. [TTL=14400] IP=74.125.113.27 (No Glue) [TTL

spam advice

2010-08-03 Thread Scott Raley
Okay I need advice because what is in place and experts-exchange has not given me a solution the director is happy with. She got a new computer and about 2 weeks after that she started getting hundreds of spam emails. So we changed her settings in outlook to be the most aggressive. Didn't have

Email Archiving - Do we need it?

2010-08-03 Thread C. Hatton Humphrey
The question was posed to me today whether our organization needs email archiving. We are a "Professional Employment Organization" which means we co-employ our client's employees and pay them under our federal ID. Clients range from mom & pop pizza joints to neurosurgery specialists to health clu

Re: Summertime Blues: 100 stimulus projects that give taxpayers the blues

2010-08-03 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
I believe the biggest waste of money is paying 100 buffoons to try and entertain us with their idiotic antics. On Aug 3, 2010, at 2:45 PM, Judah McAuley wrote: > > A list, I might add, that already had to be changed by the Senators > because it turns out that they were a wee bit less than hon

Re: In the Cloud Virtual Office folder

2010-08-03 Thread Judah McAuley
On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 12:44 PM, Cameron Childress wrote: > Interesting.  Have you hit the 2Gig limit yet?  They encrypt > everything on the way over the wire so I'll bet it's blowing the size > of the data up pretty big.  Imagine moving 100Gigs up somewhere > phew! Encryption doesn't genera

Re: Summertime Blues: 100 stimulus projects that give taxpayers the blues

2010-08-03 Thread Judah McAuley
A list, I might add, that already had to be changed by the Senators because it turns out that they were a wee bit less than honest with their cherry picking: http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/08/03/senators.stimulus.spending/?iref=polticker It's a shame, really, because we need more critical look

Re: In the Cloud Virtual Office folder

2010-08-03 Thread Cameron Childress
On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 11:39 AM, Erika L. Rich wrote: > LOL! I'm still moving files to DropBox, and every once in a while I check > the status. It's been 10hrs, or 8 days or 23 minutes, etc, depending on what > I had left to sync. > > Today I moved some of the HUGE folders. > > Status bar says "I

Summertime Blues: 100 stimulus projects that give taxpayers the blues

2010-08-03 Thread Jerry Barnes
Before you click, this is partisan in that tt was released by Tom Coburn and the "Maverick" John McCain. It also CF based. Summertime Blues: 100 stimulus projects that give taxpayers the blues

Re: Virginia Judge: The Suit Against the Health Care Law Goes Forward

2010-08-03 Thread Jerry Barnes
"I won't be commenting but here are a few articles from the last 3 months or so:" I will check them out. Thanks. J - Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny - Thomas Jefferson on governm

Re: Ajax style modal windows popup

2010-08-03 Thread Jerry Barnes
Something like thickbox using the iframe switch would work as well. There are many successors to thickbox, but for simplicity sake, I still use it. J - Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyr

RE: Ajax style modal windows popup

2010-08-03 Thread Sisk, Kris
What? Us? Derail topics? Surely not. Also, every OS sucks. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d85p7JZXNy8 -Original Message- From: Judah McAuley [mailto:ju...@wiredotter.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2010 12:29 PM To: cf-community Subject: Re: Ajax style modal windows popup His question

Re: Ajax style modal windows popup

2010-08-03 Thread Vivec
A CF question now and agains isn't frowned upon. But the intense back and forth CF stuff that you find on CF Talk you would typically not find here. It is CFMX 7. Before all the coolies stuff. On 3 August 2010 13:19, Andrew Scott wrote: > > I thought that cf-community was for off topic discuss

Re: Ajax style modal windows popup

2010-08-03 Thread Ras Tafari
ALWAYS ASK HERE. love my peeps. On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 1:40 PM, Erika L. Rich wrote: > > Nothing in CFComm is off topic or on topic. :) > > In fact, this is where I'd ask all my CF questions. It's much friendlier > here even if they derail into a political fight. > > On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 1:19

Oil spill redux

2010-08-03 Thread G Money
So now that things (maybe) are finally getting patched up permanently in the Gulf..what do you guys think? I think all of the criticism leveled at BP about ignoring safety concerns prior to the accident...and all of the calls for a comprehensive review of safety regulations before allowing de

Re: Ajax style modal windows popup

2010-08-03 Thread Erika L. Rich
Nothing in CFComm is off topic or on topic. :) In fact, this is where I'd ask all my CF questions. It's much friendlier here even if they derail into a political fight. On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 1:19 PM, Andrew Scott wrote: > > I thought that cf-community was for off topic discussions? > > ~

Re: Ajax style modal windows popup

2010-08-03 Thread Judah McAuley
His question is mostly about Javascript, which is largely off-topic for cf-talk and everything that is off-topic for cf-talk is on-topic for cf-community. Though in cf-community we reserve the right to immediately derail threads and turn them into discussions of something else entirely instead of

RE: Ajax style modal windows popup

2010-08-03 Thread Andrew Scott
I thought that cf-community was for off topic discussions? Can I ask what version of ColdFusion you are using, if you are using ColdFusion 9 and above you can look into using cfwindow. Regards, Andrew Scott http://www.andyscott.id.au/ > -Original Message- > From: Vivec [mailto:gel21..

Ajax style modal windows popup

2010-08-03 Thread Vivec
I have a site for a local Mall. I want to have a link that reads "Click Here to View Interactive Floorplan". And when that is clicked, a Ajax style window swishes open to display the Flash movie of the floorplan. Anyone know a quick way, or a tool, that would generate this behaviour? ~

Re: New CF website (Rugby World Cup 2010)

2010-08-03 Thread Judah McAuley
It's because you are a glutton for punishment, Ray :) I do like that the error is in multiple languages. I was always curious what the Kanji for "too lazy to listen to Ray when he tells you your site is broken" was. Judah On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 9:34 AM, Raymond Camden wrote: > > Wow. I see the

Re: New CF website (Rugby World Cup 2010)

2010-08-03 Thread Raymond Camden
Wow. I see the error is still there. Get this - if "View Source" is too hard for you, you can click on the O in "Occured": http://www.newzealand.com/travel/sights-activities/events-calendar/event-listings.cfm?startday=o&startmonth=8&startyear=2010&endday=11&endmonth=8&endyear=2010&eventtypeid=&ev

Re: In the Cloud Virtual Office folder

2010-08-03 Thread Erika L. Rich
LOL! I'm still moving files to DropBox, and every once in a while I check the status. It's been 10hrs, or 8 days or 23 minutes, etc, depending on what I had left to sync. Today I moved some of the HUGE folders. Status bar says "It's going to be a while, grab a Snickers." Clever. ~

Re: cool article about an abandoned town in NJ

2010-08-03 Thread trish simon
Wow! Very interesting story... Thanks for sharing! On 8/3/10, Larry C. Lyons wrote: > > http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/02/AR2010080205217.html?hpid=topnews > > Excavation of sites such as Timbuctoo, N.J., is helping to rewrite > African American history > By DeNeen

Re: Virginia Judge: The Suit Against the Health Care Law Goes Forward

2010-08-03 Thread Larry C. Lyons
I won't be commenting but here are a few articles from the last 3 months or so: http://voices.washingtonpost.com/virginiapolitics/2010/07/the_university_of_virginia_hol.html http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/22/AR2010072206100.html http://voices.washingtonpost.com/virgin

RE: Routines cannot be declared more than once

2010-08-03 Thread Justin Scott
> Is there any include_once like in PHP. In these cases I usually set a variable in the file being included and check to see if that variable is already defined or not before including it again. For example... -Justin ~~~

Re: Newsweek bought for $1

2010-08-03 Thread Sam
I think he's pointing his finger at Haten Humphrey :) On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 10:12 AM, Jerry Barnes wrote: > > "I've got to say, what could have been an uplifting story of a rich guy who > did it the right way pitching in with a sense of civic responsibility to try > to save an iconic piece of t

Re: Virginia Judge: The Suit Against the Health Care Law Goes Forward

2010-08-03 Thread Jerry Barnes
"he's wasting state money and trying to use the powers of the AG to advance his rather extremist ideologically driven agenda." Be specific. I'd like some more info on this guy. Do you mean the specific cases mentioned in this thread? By the way, change "state" to "national" and "AG" to "pre

Re: Newsweek bought for $1

2010-08-03 Thread Sam
On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 9:54 AM, Jerry Johnson wrote: > > Who am I? Just one member of the community. Exactly. You're judgmental comment came off like this list is about pleasing you and we all let you down. > But, responses like yours, Sam, are exactly why you hit my kill file years > ago. You j

Re: Newsweek bought for $1

2010-08-03 Thread Jerry Barnes
"I've got to say, what could have been an uplifting story of a rich guy who did it the right way pitching in with a sense of civic responsibility to try to save an iconic piece of the American Press (which is a cornerstone of this great country), instead has turned into the usual partisan crap."

Re: Routines cannot be declared more than once

2010-08-03 Thread Scott Stroz
That error occurs when you have 2 functions on the same page with the same name. Check the includes to make sure function names are unique. On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 9:53 AM, naresh ramagiri wrote: > > Routines cannot be declared more than once > Hi, > > I am getting a problem while including a cf

Routines cannot be declared more than once

2010-08-03 Thread naresh ramagiri
Routines cannot be declared more than once Hi, I am getting a problem while including a cfm file into another cfm file. I am trying to include two cfm files by using cfinclude. Unfortunately both have a function similar . It is generating an error Routines cannot be declared more than once Can y

cool article about an abandoned town in NJ

2010-08-03 Thread Larry C. Lyons
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/02/AR2010080205217.html?hpid=topnews Excavation of sites such as Timbuctoo, N.J., is helping to rewrite African American history By DeNeen Brown Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, August 3, 2010; A01 TIMBUCTOO, N.J. -- In Timbuctoo

Re: Newsweek bought for $1

2010-08-03 Thread Jerry Johnson
Who am I? Just one member of the community. But, responses like yours, Sam, are exactly why you hit my kill file years ago. You just don't add anything to my life in any meanful or good way. And does anyone ever wonder where everyone went on this list? Why it is the same few people hashing over

Re: Newsweek bought for $1

2010-08-03 Thread Sam
On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 9:42 AM, Larry C. Lyons wrote: > > Typical Sam real typical. Go for the ugly personal insults right off the bat. I just asked a simple question. > Look this is a good thing for the press in general.And its an even > better business decision. Or should political ideology s

Re: Virginia Judge: The Suit Against the Health Care Law Goes Forward

2010-08-03 Thread Larry C. Lyons
Attorney General Cuccinelli is an ass. he's wasting state money and trying to use the powers of the AG to advance his rather extremist ideologically driven agenda. On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 7:50 AM, Jerry Barnes wrote: > > Virginia is making headlines. > > Virginia AG: Police Can Ask for Immigratio

Re: Newsweek bought for $1

2010-08-03 Thread Larry C. Lyons
Typical Sam real typical. Go for the ugly personal insults right off the bat. Look this is a good thing for the press in general.And its an even better business decision. Or should political ideology supersede free enterprise. Hmm - does this mean that its OK to ditch core principles when they ar

Re: Newsweek bought for $1

2010-08-03 Thread Sam
And who the fuck are you? We're not here to be judged by you. The reason Harman is taking on the $100 million plus challenge is because the magazine doesn't represent what this country was built on. It represents bias. That's what's crushing them and Time mag. The only way to save them is to get

Re: Newsweek bought for $1

2010-08-03 Thread Jerry Johnson
I've got to say, what could have been an uplifting story of a rich guy who did it the right way pitching in with a sense of civic responsibility to try to save an iconic piece of the American Press (which is a cornerstone of this great country), instead has turned into the usual partisan crap. I

Re: Newsweek bought for $1

2010-08-03 Thread Larry C. Lyons
Anyone who can completely shake up the industry he started in twice, and then go on to get a couple of doctorates and come back and shake things up again to me suggests that he's a good turn around CEO. Probably its just what newsweek needs. On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 7:43 AM, Cameron Childress wrot

Re: Newsweek bought for $1

2010-08-03 Thread Larry C. Lyons
I got a harmon amp when I was in college. I still use the thing as a pre-amp. its been about the cleanest sounding amp that I've run across. On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 6:34 AM, Casey Dougall wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 10:34 PM, Larry C. Lyons wrote: > >> >> Harmon Electronics make very good e

Re: Newsweek bought for $1

2010-08-03 Thread Larry C. Lyons
You're just whining because one of your conservative shills was told to go take a flying fck. On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 8:40 AM, Sam wrote: > > Now that's funny :) > > On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 10:34 PM, Larry C. Lyons wrote: >> >> What are you >> complaining about, one less independent media outlet?

Re: Newsweek bought for $1

2010-08-03 Thread Larry C. Lyons
If you read about the guy, he has a pretty interesting life. here's what the post reported: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/02/AR2010080203970.html Harman Media buys Newsweek from Washington Post Co. for undisclosed amount By Frank Ahrens Tuesday, August 3, 2010; A10

Re: Newsweek bought for $1

2010-08-03 Thread Sam
Now that's funny :) On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 10:34 PM, Larry C. Lyons wrote: > > What are you > complaining about, one less independent media outlet? > ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Cold

Re: Newsweek bought for $1

2010-08-03 Thread Jerry Barnes
"Does anyone else find it ironic that as media is changing more and more rapidly, that a 91 year old man is taking control? I'm not saying he's not capable of understanding and embracing change, he's obviously very successful, but isn't there a certain emotion and nostalgia that he must be draggi

Re: Virginia Judge: The Suit Against the Health Care Law Goes Forward

2010-08-03 Thread Jerry Barnes
Virginia is making headlines. Virginia AG: Police Can Ask for Immigration Status: In the opinion, issued Friday, Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli ruled: "Virginia law enforcement officers have the authority to make the same inquiries as t

Re: Newsweek bought for $1

2010-08-03 Thread Cameron Childress
On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 8:02 PM, Judah McAuley wrote: > 91 year old audio equipment tycoon has reportedly bought Newsweek > magazine for $1. Not an issue, mind you, but the whole company. > > http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/aug/03/sidney-harman-buys-newsweek-magazine Does anyone else find it

Re: Newsweek bought for $1

2010-08-03 Thread Casey Dougall
On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 10:34 PM, Larry C. Lyons wrote: > > Harmon Electronics make very good equipment. Considering what he's > done, hey he's entitled to blow his money as he wants. > > Hell yeah...Harmon Pro Group owns some killer companies. Basically 9 out of 10 clubs use JBL speakers with c