Re: I have a favorite new thing: Bad Lip Reading

2011-10-17 Thread Gruss Gott
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I have a favorite new thing: Bad Lip Reading

2011-10-17 Thread Jerry Milo Johnson
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Re: Neutrinos

2011-10-17 Thread Larry C. Lyons
Maybe but the issue is that despite all the massive amounts of evidence against it, the true believer dismisses such as a conspiracy or other some bit of crud. As for the sound barrier, that wasn't so much of a scientific one as an engineering effort. What was needed was the design of a wing that

Re: Occupy Personal Responsibility

2011-10-17 Thread PT
BoA and First Union are dumping employees .. the easiest and fastest way to reduce expenses. They are still hiring, but mostly for positions vacated by people they let go because said persons were not providing results as measured by the budgets the companies have set. They are also being *e

Re: Bank Transfer Day

2011-10-17 Thread Cameron Childress
On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 5:36 PM, Maureen wrote: > So you admit that your entire opinion of them comes from the media? Not a > very balanced view. My opinion comes from what they have shown me. Through media, through Facebook, through websites. There is some balanced place between getting ev

Re: Bank Transfer Day

2011-10-17 Thread PT
http://www.cracked.com/blog/3-types-wall-street-protesters-hurting-their-own-cause/ On 10/17/2011 3:57 PM, Cameron Childress wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 3:37 PM, Maureen wrote: > >> You certainly have a stereotyped opinion of the protesters. >> > > Isn't this really about have vs have-not

Re: Occupy Personal Responsibility

2011-10-17 Thread Maureen
On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 12:48 PM, GMoney wrote: > Do you somehow doubt that corporations provide jobs? I mean, a corporation > is nothing more than a collection of employed peopleright? > No, a corporation is a legal entity with stockholders and Board of Directors, incorporated under law.

Re: Bank Transfer Day

2011-10-17 Thread Maureen
> I know exactly where that sin lies, and while some of the executives in > these companies may have been culpable, they certainly are the puppet > masters. > Should say: I know exactly where that sin lies, and while some of the executives in these companies may have been culpable, they cert

Re: Bank Transfer Day

2011-10-17 Thread Maureen
On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 12:57 PM, Cameron Childress wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 3:37 PM, Maureen wrote: > > > You certainly have a stereotyped opinion of the protesters. > > > Isn't this really about have vs have-nots? I'm viewing the protesters in > exactly the way they have communicate

Re: Occupy Personal Responsibility

2011-10-17 Thread Cameron Childress
On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 5:09 PM, Judah McAuley wrote: > Ah, ok, no worries then. It's hard with email discussions because > every contribution to a thread has to be a response to something > else...even if it isn't exactly meant as one. > Yeah - it's a natural instinct on this list in particula

Re: Occupy Personal Responsibility

2011-10-17 Thread Judah McAuley
On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 1:59 PM, Cameron Childress wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 4:52 PM, Judah McAuley wrote: > >> I also didn't say that we should stop companies from getting bigger. >> You seem to be arguing with a straw man here. > > > Meh - really not arguing as much as stating my posi

Re: Occupy Personal Responsibility

2011-10-17 Thread Cameron Childress
On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 4:52 PM, Judah McAuley wrote: > I also didn't say that we should stop companies from getting bigger. > You seem to be arguing with a straw man here. Meh - really not arguing as much as stating my position. Doesn't have to be in opposition to yours. -Cameron ... ~~~

Re: Occupy Personal Responsibility

2011-10-17 Thread Judah McAuley
On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 1:33 PM, Cameron Childress wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 4:22 PM, Judah McAuley wrote: > >> The original question was on employment in big companies versus small >> business and I just pointed out that one of the primary reasons for >> big companies is efficiency of

Re: Occupy Personal Responsibility

2011-10-17 Thread denstar
On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 2:11 PM, Cameron Childress wrote: > This is also true of technology.  I've wrote some software that eliminated > an entire department at a company once.  They were redundant, the system > literally did 100% of what they did in their jobs. > > So - is that also bad?  I was j

Re: Neutrinos

2011-10-17 Thread denstar
On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 9:53 AM, Larry C. Lyons wrote: > > If you remember what happened with palladium based fusion, there will > be some true believers who will try and push it in spite of the > contrary data. If you remember what happened with the Sound Barrier (why is it called a barrier agai

Re: Occupy Personal Responsibility

2011-10-17 Thread Cameron Childress
On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 4:22 PM, Judah McAuley wrote: > The original question was on employment in big companies versus small > business and I just pointed out that one of the primary reasons for > big companies is efficiency of scale which means fewer people needed > to produce the same output.

Re: Occupy Personal Responsibility

2011-10-17 Thread Judah McAuley
On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 1:11 PM, Cameron Childress wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 4:04 PM, Judah McAuley wrote: > >> By definition, the more efficiency you create in your business >> execution, the less you need to staff. > > > This is also true of technology.  I've wrote some software that

Re: Occupy Personal Responsibility

2011-10-17 Thread Cameron Childress
On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 4:04 PM, Judah McAuley wrote: > By definition, the more efficiency you create in your business > execution, the less you need to staff. This is also true of technology. I've wrote some software that eliminated an entire department at a company once. They were redundan

Re: Occupy Personal Responsibility

2011-10-17 Thread Judah McAuley
In general, the justification for larger businesses is efficiencies of scale. By definition, the more efficiency you create in your business execution, the less you need to staff. So fewer, larger, companies will have a bunch of jobs but it will be, in aggregate, less than the larger number of sma

Re: Bank Transfer Day

2011-10-17 Thread Cameron Childress
On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 3:37 PM, Maureen wrote: > You certainly have a stereotyped opinion of the protesters. > Isn't this really about have vs have-nots? I'm viewing the protesters in exactly the way they have communicated their beliefs and protests to me. I am unlikely to go down to a prote

Re: Bank Transfer Day

2011-10-17 Thread GMoney
I'll move my money for one reason and one reason only: If it makes good financial sense to do so. If other people want to do it for some other principled reason, more power to them. I have one overarching principle that tops all others: provide for my family the way my parents provided for me. T

Re: Occupy Personal Responsibility

2011-10-17 Thread GMoney
On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 2:33 PM, Maureen wrote: > > But are those jobs from corporations, or from small businesses? > > Also, are those emails viable jobs, or just spam blasts from recruiters? > Couple have been spam blasts, but most have not been. Some small businesses, several that were quit

Re: Bank Transfer Day

2011-10-17 Thread Maureen
On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 6:31 AM, Cameron Childress wrote: > However, I do still wonder, when it comes to occupy protesters > > 1) Does a typical occupy protester have enough money in their account > for a big bank to even notice? If you believe them, they don't. > You certainly have a stereotyp

Re: Occupy Personal Responsibility

2011-10-17 Thread Maureen
But are those jobs from corporations, or from small businesses? Also, are those emails viable jobs, or just spam blasts from recruiters? On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 7:25 AM, GMoney wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 2:37 PM, Maureen wrote: > > > > > Not lately. Which ones are you hearing that fr

Re: infinity blade?

2011-10-17 Thread Anthony Weeg
in that one scene/area? the castle is it? Sent from my iPhone... Don't hate. On Oct 17, 2011, at 12:05 PM, Vivec wrote: > > Yup. That's it. Collecting points to upgrade your weapons etc. > > On 17 October 2011 11:54, Ras Tafari wrote: > >> >> anyone here playing infinity blade on iOS? >>

Robert Reich debunks Rick Perry

2011-10-17 Thread Dana
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Re: infinity blade?

2011-10-17 Thread Vivec
Yup. That's it. Collecting points to upgrade your weapons etc. On 17 October 2011 11:54, Ras Tafari wrote: > > anyone here playing infinity blade on iOS? > > i cant seem to find anything else to get into other > than fighting the same kinda guys in this castle and things > around it... is that

infinity blade?

2011-10-17 Thread Ras Tafari
anyone here playing infinity blade on iOS? i cant seem to find anything else to get into other than fighting the same kinda guys in this castle and things around it... is that all there is?? ras ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion An

Re: Bank Transfer Day

2011-10-17 Thread Cameron Childress
On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 11:32 AM, Robert Munn wrote: > like the prices in a couture boutique, if you have to ask ... > Wait... If I don't know what that means - can I still be part fo the 1%? ...and what if 50%+ of Americans are in the 1%? Can it still be called 1%? -Cameron ...

Re: Bank Transfer Day

2011-10-17 Thread Robert Munn
like the prices in a couture boutique, if you have to ask ... On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 7:36 AM, Cameron Childress wrote: > > > Does that make me part of the 1%? > ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.c

Re: Monday Neutrino Joke

2011-10-17 Thread Jerry Milo Johnson
Yeah, I am nerdly embarrassed for finding that funny. On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 10:45 AM, Gruss Gott wrote: > > Oh that's good ... > > > > On Oct 17, 2011, at 9:20 AM, Cameron Childress wrote: > > > > > The bartender says: "We don't allow faster-than-light neutrinos in here". > > > > Two neutrin

Re: Monday Neutrino Joke

2011-10-17 Thread Gruss Gott
Oh that's good ... On Oct 17, 2011, at 9:20 AM, Cameron Childress wrote: > > The bartender says: "We don't allow faster-than-light neutrinos in here". > > Two neutrinos walk into a bar. > > ... > > > ~| Order the Adobe

Re: Bank Transfer Day

2011-10-17 Thread Ras Tafari
we are 1%'ers On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 10:36 AM, Cameron Childress wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 10:31 AM, Ras Tafari wrote: > >> if i could find a bank with as much to offer as Bank of America >> offers me... i'd consider... > > > Yeah, I am kinda the same.  I had a Credit Union account fo

Re: Bank Transfer Day

2011-10-17 Thread Cameron Childress
On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 10:31 AM, Ras Tafari wrote: > if i could find a bank with as much to offer as Bank of America > offers me... i'd consider... Yeah, I am kinda the same. I had a Credit Union account for year, but finally closed it when they consistently could not offer me better rates.

Re: Bank Transfer Day

2011-10-17 Thread Ras Tafari
if i could find a bank with as much to offer as Bank of America offers me... i'd consider... On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 10:03 AM, Cameron Childress wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 9:56 AM, PT wrote: > >> So, with this in mind, out come all of the >> little surcharges and fees.  If they can't ni

Re: Occupy Personal Responsibility

2011-10-17 Thread GMoney
On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 2:37 PM, Maureen wrote: > > Not lately. Which ones are you hearing that from? > Lots of jobs in the KC area. I changed my status on DICE to "happily employed", and still get emails several times a month..including 3 just last week. I'm just saying that corporations are

Monday Neutrino Joke

2011-10-17 Thread Cameron Childress
The bartender says: "We don't allow faster-than-light neutrinos in here". Two neutrinos walk into a bar. ... ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=hous

Re: Can education be "moneyball"ed

2011-10-17 Thread GMoney
On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 6:44 PM, Maureen wrote: > > A lot of my film-making friends here in the Bay Area worked on that movie. > It was great fun and they were very well treated. > I haven't been to a movie in the theater for yearshate watching movies with loudmouthed strangers, and my wife

Re: Bank Transfer Day

2011-10-17 Thread Cameron Childress
On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 9:56 AM, PT wrote: > So, with this in mind, out come all of the > little surcharges and fees. If they can't nickle and dime you into > becoming profitable for them, they don't want your dead weight and > prefer you take it somewhere else. This part I don't get... So,

Re: Bank Transfer Day

2011-10-17 Thread Sam
And since savings in this country has been way down for a long time they now get their money interest free from the gov and don't need or want us. . On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 9:56 AM, PT wrote: > > Even if banks did notice, they probably wouldn't care.  Banks have begun > shifting business models

Re: Bank Transfer Day

2011-10-17 Thread PT
Even if banks did notice, they probably wouldn't care. Banks have begun shifting business models. Before, they operated on a more customers is better theory. Now they have decided that fewer customers that are profitable are better. So, with this in mind, out come all of the little surchar

BlackBerry outage made roads safer, police claim

2011-10-17 Thread Cameron Childress
Lack of "texting while driving" significantly reduced traffic accidents? http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2011/10/17/blackberry-outage-made-roads-safer-police-claim/ -Cameron ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! h

Bank Transfer Day

2011-10-17 Thread Cameron Childress
Now, here's the more impactful type of effort I was talking about. Transferring money out of big banks en masse will make much more impact than the occupy movement. "Together we can ensure that these banking institutions will always remember the 5th of November!! If the 99% removes our funds from