IE7 Tax

2012-06-14 Thread Judah McAuley
Online retailer in Australia charging a 6.8% tax on visitors using IE7. Seems to be real. Regardless, an excellent idea :) http://www.techguide.com.au/menu-news-by-categories/internet/1162-kogan-imposes-worlds-first-internet-explorer-7-tax Cheers, Judah ~

Re: Holy cow

2012-06-14 Thread Maureen
http://connect.att.jobs/detroit/business-sales-solutions/jobid2351827-at%EF%B9%A0amp;t-consultant-professional-services-3-jobs On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 3:48 PM, Eric Roberts wrote: > > I have worked there before.  They have a system to score customer service > reps all the way up to the VP...I co

Thursday Funny

2012-06-14 Thread Scott Stroz
http://bit.ly/ML65qL Love that guy. -- Scott Stroz --- You can make things happen, you can watch things happen or you can wonder what the f*&k happened. - Cpt. Phil Harris http://xkcd.com/386/ ~| Order the Adobe C

RE: Holy cow

2012-06-14 Thread Eric Roberts
I have worked there before. They have a system to score customer service reps all the way up to the VP...I co-wrote that several years ago. The guy that did submit me seemed all right ;-) I have worked through that company before. This other guy that was claiming that AT&T works exclusively wi

Re: Holy cow

2012-06-14 Thread Dana
this sounds like when Wells Fargo was asking for five years of experience in a technology that had only existed for two. Their HR apparently kept offering bigger and bigger bonses to receuiters who could come up with someone with the right skills lol. I assume they eventually outsourced it and are

Re: Holy cow

2012-06-14 Thread Maureen
If that is the case, I would go to AT&T directly and not through a recruiter, unless you have one there you can trust to tell you the truth about the job. On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 3:22 PM, Eric Roberts wrote: > > Apparently AT&T in my area is looking for a CF developer.  I got like (and > this is

Re: Holy cow

2012-06-14 Thread Brian Thornton
It's a bad deal... Watch out... On Jun 14, 2012 6:38 PM, "Eric Roberts" wrote: > > Apparently AT&T in my area is looking for a CF developer. I got like (and > this is not an exaggeration) about 40-50 phone calls and about he same > number of emails from different recruiters about this. I feel

Holy cow

2012-06-14 Thread Eric Roberts
Apparently AT&T in my area is looking for a CF developer. I got like (and this is not an exaggeration) about 40-50 phone calls and about he same number of emails from different recruiters about this. I feel like a bloody piece of meat in a tank of hungry sharks. I had one recruiter try and get

RE: this may become my new wall paper

2012-06-14 Thread Eric Roberts
That would probably be a good start, then, at improving our educational system. Eric Roberts Owner/Senior ColdFusion Developer Three Ravens Consulting ow...@threeravensconsulting.com http://www.threeravensconsulting.com tel: 630-881-1515 -Original Message- From: Maureen [mailto:

Re: this may become my new wall paper

2012-06-14 Thread Maureen
Yeah..but if they did that, there would be very few teachers left. On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 2:24 PM, Larry C. Lyons wrote: > > http://failblog.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/homework-class-test-school-of-fail-words-of-wisdom-we-have-to-weed-them-out-somehow.jpg > ~~

this may become my new wall paper

2012-06-14 Thread Larry C. Lyons
http://failblog.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/homework-class-test-school-of-fail-words-of-wisdom-we-have-to-weed-them-out-somehow.jpg -- Larry C. Lyons web: http://www.lyonsmorris.com/lyons LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/larryclyons ~~

Re: World's oldest movies discovered in cave paintings

2012-06-14 Thread Casey Dougall - Uber Website Solutions
On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 4:21 PM, Larry C. Lyons wrote: > My kid was doing that at age 2. My Dad's school went to electronic white boards so now I have a 4' x 4' chalk board I write on. ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology

Re: World's oldest movies discovered in cave paintings

2012-06-14 Thread Larry C. Lyons
My kid was doing that at age 2. On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 4:16 PM, Casey Dougall - Uber Website Solutions wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 1:56 PM, Larry C. Lyons wrote: > >> The question remains though, what would the purpose be for this - >> Saturday night entertainment (look for the fossilize

Re: World's oldest movies discovered in cave paintings

2012-06-14 Thread Casey Dougall - Uber Website Solutions
On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 1:56 PM, Larry C. Lyons wrote: > The question remains though, what would the purpose be for this - > Saturday night entertainment (look for the fossilized popcorn) or > Sunday religious mystery. I suspect religious mystery myself. > Spend a few months in a cave during the

Re: Best Father's Day book ever

2012-06-14 Thread Larry C. Lyons
I saw an image of it on the Think Geek site but couldn't find a link to the book. Thanks Judah. On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 3:18 PM, Judah McAuley wrote: > > Darth Vader and Son > > http://blackwagon.com/product/darth-vader-and-son.html > > What if Darth Vader took an active role in raising his son

Best Father's Day book ever

2012-06-14 Thread Judah McAuley
Darth Vader and Son http://blackwagon.com/product/darth-vader-and-son.html What if Darth Vader took an active role in raising his son? What if “Luke, I am your father” was just a stern admonishment from an annoyed dad? In this hilarious and sweet comic reimagining, Darth Vader is a dad like any

Re: Messed up priorities

2012-06-14 Thread GMoney
It's not the rapture until we see this: On Armageddon, at 12:00am, sammyc...@gmail.com wrote: I agree with Larry. On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 10:16 AM, Larry C. Lyons wrote: > > Shocked! I tell you Simply Shocked! > > This day should be a national holiday. Scott agrees. What is this > universe com

Re: World's oldest movies discovered in cave paintings

2012-06-14 Thread Larry C. Lyons
It makes a lot of sense. But one way to validate it would be to analyze the ceilings of the caverns for traces of soot that old. I would like to see it duplicated with torches etc. Probably the images on the walls took advantage of shadowing and the flames, but also the wall's texture, which could

Re: World's oldest movies discovered in cave paintings

2012-06-14 Thread GMoney
A little surprised it wasn't a porn movie.but that is really cool. On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 12:34 PM, Ras Tafari wrote: > > now that's kiler! > > On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 11:58 AM, Larry C. Lyons > wrote: > > > > Astounding. Really cool. I think that should have archeologists and > > pal

Re: CNN Breaking news...

2012-06-14 Thread Jerry Barnes
"wait what happened to the election they just had?" The elections replaced a stable, corrupt, and brutal regime with and unstable, corrupt regime which is going to be replaced by another corrupt and brutal regime. J - Ninety percent of politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation. -

Re: World's oldest movies discovered in cave paintings

2012-06-14 Thread Ras Tafari
now that's kiler! On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 11:58 AM, Larry C. Lyons wrote: > > Astounding. Really cool. I think that should have archeologists and > paleolithic specialists rethinking a lot of the cave art. > > On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 11:43 AM, Jerry Milo Johnson wrote: >> >> http://news.yah

Re: CNN Breaking news...

2012-06-14 Thread Dana
yeah I remember hearing some stuff about how they were electing a president but it wasn't clear what his powers would be. Hmm. Hope they work it out. On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 9:12 AM, Judah McAuley wrote: > > It's complicated. They've held rolling rounds of elections for > different positions,

Re: CNN Breaking news...

2012-06-14 Thread Judah McAuley
It's complicated. They've held rolling rounds of elections for different positions, local and national, and are still trying to settle on a constitutional committee that would finish drafting a new constitution. It's kind of like trying to build a car while driving down the freeway in it. Judah

Re: CNN Breaking news...

2012-06-14 Thread Jerry Milo Johnson
35% of the house seats were ruled by the court to have been elected illegally (corrupt voting) On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 12:01 PM, Dana wrote: > > wait what happened to the election they just had? > > On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 8:47 AM, Eric Roberts < > ow...@threeravensconsulting.com> wrote: > >> >>

Re: CNN Breaking news...

2012-06-14 Thread Dana
wait what happened to the election they just had? On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 8:47 AM, Eric Roberts < ow...@threeravensconsulting.com> wrote: > > Egypt's military rulers claim to be in control of government after top > court > rules it has dissolved parliament. > > > > This should be interesting to

Re: CNN Breaking news...

2012-06-14 Thread Larry C. Lyons
arab spring part 2? On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 11:47 AM, Eric Roberts wrote: > > Egypt's military rulers claim to be in control of government after top court > rules it has dissolved parliament. > > > > This should be interesting to see what happens. > > Eric > > > > ~

Re: World's oldest movies discovered in cave paintings

2012-06-14 Thread Larry C. Lyons
Astounding. Really cool. I think that should have archeologists and paleolithic specialists rethinking a lot of the cave art. On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 11:43 AM, Jerry Milo Johnson wrote: > > http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/world-oldest-movies-discovered-prehistoric-caves-video-204120011.html

CNN Breaking news...

2012-06-14 Thread Eric Roberts
Egypt's military rulers claim to be in control of government after top court rules it has dissolved parliament. This should be interesting to see what happens. Eric ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.

World's oldest movies discovered in cave paintings

2012-06-14 Thread Jerry Milo Johnson
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/world-oldest-movies-discovered-prehistoric-caves-video-204120011.html the paintings had multiple positions of moving parts of animals, that when moved to time-lapse show motion. very cool early motion studies in art ~~

time to get into some more mad scientisty like stuff.

2012-06-14 Thread Larry C. Lyons
A research grade consumer priced EEG system. Only $100. http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/e9e5/ I checked on the manufacturers site, and they list several research papers using the system. Also the Attention training program that comes with the device looks pretty good. I think I am going to hav

Re: Messed up priorities

2012-06-14 Thread Larry C. Lyons
Shocked! I tell you Simply Shocked! This day should be a national holiday. Scott agrees. What is this universe coming to. The apocalypse is near! 2012 is true its the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine. On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 11:04 AM, Scott Stroz wrote: > > Its not amazing. At all

Re: Messed up priorities

2012-06-14 Thread Scott Stroz
Its not amazing. At all. There are billions of galaxies in the universe. Each galaxy containing billions of stars. Each star having who knows how many planets revolving around it. Its simply a game of odds. With that many possibilities, at least one planet (and in my opinion, not the only one) w

Re: New Music Tuesday

2012-06-14 Thread Casey Dougall - Uber Website Solutions
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 6:45 PM, Judah McAuley wrote: > Mirkins? Heh. Best band-followers-name evar. > > Judah > Oh here we go! Justin Bieber - As Long As You Love Me Ft Big Sean (Audio) DUBSTEP! LOL http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=XurivJmSW4U#! ~~

I like it: the story of the .tk TLD

2012-06-14 Thread Jerry Milo Johnson
http://www.cnn.com/2012/06/13/tech/web/tokelau-domain-name-holder/index.html?hpt=hp_bn5 ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http