Re: Chile's Private Social Security System Turns 30

2011-04-30 Thread Judah McAuley
The fact that this system was brought in as part of a right-wing fascist takeover after the American-sponsored assassination of the democratically elected President and then propped up for a couple decades by those same forces doesn't even enter into the story at all... Yes, let's model our "reti

Re: Google Apps Changes

2011-04-30 Thread Erika L. Rich
:P um ... no :P lol! On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 4:07 AM, denstar wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 10:16 PM, Erika L. Rich wrote: > ... > > I stopped hosting email on my servers a while ago. Simply NOT worth the > > headache. Get thee in the cloud and LIKE IT! > > I've been on the internet and l

Chile's Private Social Security System Turns 30

2011-04-30 Thread Jerry Barnes
Excerpt: May Day — socialists' paean to class warfare — evokes memories of Soviet tanks in Red Square and leftist radicals rioting. But Chile celebrates the actual empowerment of workers. May 1 marks the 30 years since Chile became the first nation to privatize its social security system. By tur

Re: Google Apps Changes

2011-04-30 Thread Cameron Childress
Also - I've got a few clients who are not sure they are ready to move yet. I've been advising them to go ahead and sign up anyway. You don't have to change your dns or activate the email part right away, but they will still get grandfathered and it it will be there when they are ready... O

Re: IHOP Cop Punches Lady in the face

2011-04-30 Thread Cameron Childress
Yes - there is definitely a huge difference between an academic discussion of what *should* happen and the reality of how to act when faced with a situation like this in person. On Apr 30, 2011, at 9:57 AM, Medic wrote: > And you would likely spend your recovery wishing you hadn't. ~~

Re: New Roadblocks to a US Passport

2011-04-30 Thread Casey Dougall
On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 4:28 AM, Robert Munn wrote: > > I couldn't fill this out. I disagree about one thing, it's not an ID > system coming in through the side door, it's coming in right through > the front door, probably to standing applause in Washington. > > It's all a ploy from lobbyists

Re: IHOP Cop Punches Lady in the face

2011-04-30 Thread Medic
And you would likely spend your recovery wishing you hadn't. On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 11:46 PM, Eric Roberts < ow...@threeravensconsulting.com> wrote: > > Yeah...after he unnecessarily slapped her. I would have knocked the shit > out of him if he did that to me. > > -Original Message- >

Re: New Roadblocks to a US Passport

2011-04-30 Thread Sam
+1000 Stuff like this everyone agrees on so I would only add an "I agree" to the convo. . On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 5:34 AM, denstar wrote: > > I give Sam a hard time for being pissed more about money than stuff > like this.  I know stuff like this pisses him off too, but it doesn't > seem to g

Re: New Roadblocks to a US Passport

2011-04-30 Thread denstar
Reading this stuff and watching Miss USA crying about her vagina being touched by the TSA makes me sad. Or maybe I'm angry. Sangry? Anyways... Mostly it's just sorta amazing (not really, as I've been around the block-- and yet...) that we, as FUCKING AMERICANS, are so, well, un-fucking-america

Re: New Roadblocks to a US Passport

2011-04-30 Thread Robert Munn
I couldn't fill this out. I disagree about one thing, it's not an ID system coming in through the side door, it's coming in right through the front door, probably to standing applause in Washington. On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 10:24 AM, Cameron Childress wrote: > > There is no way I could fill this

Re: Google Apps Changes

2011-04-30 Thread denstar
On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 10:16 PM, Erika L. Rich wrote: ... > I stopped hosting email on my servers a while ago. Simply NOT worth the > headache.  Get thee in the cloud and LIKE IT! I've been on the internet and loving it for a couple decades now I reckon. Is the cloud something like that? ;) :