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books

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 03:54:01 +0000

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		+	Such a Long Journey - Rohinton Mistry

drinkingatwork

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 03:54:02 +0000

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	+
	+	While most companies refrain from allowing consumption of alcohol on the premises, there are some good arguments for changing that policy. Reasons for allowing drinking at work include:
	+
	+	- It's an incentive to show up.
	+	- It reduces stress.
	+	- It leads to more honest communications.
	+	- It reduces complaints about low pay.
	+	- It cuts down on time off because you can work with a hangover.
	+	- Employees tell management what they think, not what management wants to hear.
	+	- It helps save on heating costs in the winter.
	+	- It encourages carpooling.
	+	- Increases job satisfaction because if you have a bad job you don't care.
	+	- It eliminates vacations because people would rather come to work.
	+	- It makes fellow employees look better.
	+	- It makes the cafeteria food taste better.
	+	- Bosses are more likely to hand out raises when they are wasted.
	+	- Salary negotiations are a lot more profitable.
	+	- Suddenly, farting during a meeting isn't so embarrassing.
	+	- No one will remember your strip act at the Christmas Party.
	+	----
	+
	+

earthquake

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	+	* The Portlander’s Guide to Surviving the Big One
	+	* https://www.pdxmonthly.com/features/the-portlander-s-guide-to-surviving-the-big-one

fontsanddesign

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 03:54:03 +0000

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	+
	+	http://www.fontpool.com
	+	*butterbelly
	+	*chlorine
	+	*plastic jesus
	+
	+	http://truetype.demon.co.uk/ttfonts.htm
	+
	+	http://hardcovermedia.com/lab/
	+	*moondog
	+	*control freak
	+	*elektora
	+	*erinal
	+	*rx mm
	+
	+	http://fontfoundry.com/
	+	*neuropol
	+
	+	List of links - http://www.microsoft.com/typography/links/links.asp?type=free&part=1
	+
	+	Movie and TV show fonts - http://elieteentertainment.net/famousfonts/
	+
	+	http://myfonts.com
	+
	+	http://www.core.nu/
	+	----
	+	computer
	+

fruitflyscience

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 03:54:04 +0000

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	+
	+
	+	======= Thoughts about fruit fly memory behaviors =======
	+
	+	I just finished a book entitled Fly which is a history of the use of the fruit fly for biological research. The whole book was good, but one item I found particularly fascinating. One of the areas studied with the fly is learning and memory. A test device was created where the fly was kept in a test tube which allowed odors to pass through and to which an unpleasant electrical voltage could be applied. For a training session two odors were sequentially sent through the tube with odor 1 also receiving an electrical shock. The flies were then moved to a T junction where odor 1 was at the end of one leg and odor 2 was at the end of the other leg. With normal flies over 90% would walk toward odor 2 which had no adverse effect associated with it. With 1 training session the memory wore off with time and after 24 hrs. there was no evidence of learning. If the fly was exposed to 10 training cycles with 15 min between each session, they retained the memory at the end of a week.
	+
	+	The fact that such a simple animal could learn something and retain it over time was interesting, but what was really interesting was what happened when they created mutants with modified genomes. In one case they created a line of flies lacking one gene, which results in one missing protein out of 15,000, resulting in no short term learning. At the end of a training session it was equally likely to head toward odor 1 or 2. What was most interesting was the impact of another gene (CREB gene). When it was eliminated there could be short term learning, but no long term memory. No matter how many training sessions, at the end of 24 hrs there was no impact from the training. What was really neat was that when they inserted an additional copy of the gene the flies developed "photographic memory" and had a long term memory after just 1 training session. I found it fascinating that a change to the level of a single chemical (the protein created by the gene) could have such a profound
	+	impact on such complex behavior.
	+
	+	by [[RobVanVoorhies]]
	+	----
	+
	+

inpraiseofidleness

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 03:54:06 +0000

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	+	In Praise of Idleness
	+	By Bertrand Russell [1932]
	+
	+	Like most of my generation, I was brought up on the saying: 'Satan finds
	+	some mischief for idle hands to do.' Being a highly virtuous child, I
	+	believed all that I was told, and acquired a conscience which has kept
	+	me working hard down to the present moment. But although my conscience
	+	has controlled my actions, my opinions have undergone a revolution. I
	+	think that there is far too much work done in the world, that immense
	+	harm is caused by the belief that work is virtuous, and that what needs
	+	to be preached in modern industrial countries is quite different from
	+	what always has been preached. Everyone knows the story of the traveler
	+	in Naples who saw twelve beggars lying in the sun (it was before the
	+	days of Mussolini), and offered a lira to the laziest of them. Eleven of
	+	them jumped up to claim it, so he gave it to the twelfth. this traveler
	+	was on the right lines. But in countries which do not enjoy
	+	Mediterranean sunshine idleness is more difficult, and a great public
	+	propaganda will be required to inaugurate it. I hope that, after reading
	+	the following pages, the leaders of the YMCA will start a campaign to
	+	induce good young men to do nothing. If so, I shall not have lived in vain.
	+
	+	Before advancing my own arguments for laziness, I must dispose of one
	+	which I cannot accept. Whenever a person who already has enough to live
	+	on proposes to engage in some everyday kind of job, such as
	+	school-teaching or typing, he or she is told that such conduct takes the
	+	bread out of other people's mouths, and is therefore wicked. If this
	+	argument were valid, it would only be necessary for us all to be idle in
	+	order that we should all have our mouths full of bread. What people who
	+	say such things forget is that what a man earns he usually spends, and
	+	in spending he gives employment. As long as a man spends his income, he
	+	puts just as much bread into people's mouths in spending as he takes out
	+	of other people's mouths in earning. The real villain, from this point
	+	of view, is the man who saves. If he merely puts his savings in a
	+	stocking, like the proverbial French peasant, it is obvious that they do
	+	not give employment. If he invests his savings, the matter is less
	+	obvious, and different cases arise.
	+
	+	One of the commonest things to do with savings is to lend them to some
	+	Government. In view of the fact that the bulk of the public expenditure
	+	of most civilized Governments consists in payment for past wars or
	+	preparation for future wars, the man who lends his money to a Government
	+	is in the same position as the bad men in Shakespeare who hire
	+	murderers. The net result of the man's economical habits is to increase
	+	the armed forces of the State to which he lends his savings. Obviously
	+	it would be better if he spent the money, even if he spent it in drink
	+	or gambling.
	+
	+	But, I shall be told, the case is quite different when savings are
	+	invested in industrial enterprises. When such enterprises succeed, and
	+	produce something useful, this may be conceded. In these days, however,
	+	no one will deny that most enterprises fail. That means that a large
	+	amount of human labor, which might have been devoted to producing
	+	something that could be enjoyed, was expended on producing machines
	+	which, when produced, lay idle and did no good to anyone. The man who
	+	invests his savings in a concern that goes bankrupt is therefore
	+	injuring others as well as himself. If he spent his money, say, in
	+	giving parties for his friends, they (we may hope) would get pleasure,
	+	and so would all those upon whom he spent money, such as the butcher,
	+	the baker, and the bootlegger. But if he spends it (let us say) upon
	+	laying down rails for surface card in some place where surface cars turn
	+	out not to be wanted, he has diverted a mass of labor into channels
	+	where it gives pleasure to no one. Nevertheless, when he becomes poor
	+	through failure of his investment he will be regarded as a victim of
	+	undeserved misfortune, whereas the gay spendthrift, who has spent his
	+	money philanthropically, will be despised as a fool and a frivolous person.
	+
	+	All this is only preliminary. I want to say, in all seriousness, that a
	+	great deal of harm is being done in the modern world by belief in the
	+	virtuousness of work, and that the road to happiness and prosperity lies
	+	in an organized diminution of work.
	+
	+	First of all: what is work? Work is of two kinds: first, altering the
	+	position of matter at or near the earth's surface relatively to other
	+	such matter; second, telling other people to do so. The first kind is
	+	unpleasant and ill paid; the second is pleasant and highly paid. The
	+	second kind is capable of indefinite extension: there are not only those
	+	who give orders, but those who give advice as to what orders should be
	+	given. Usually two opposite kinds of advice are given simultaneously by
	+	two organized bodies of men; this is called politics. The skill required
	+	for this kind of work is not knowledge of the subjects as to which
	+	advice is given, but knowledge of the art of persuasive speaking and
	+	writing, i.e. of advertising.
	+
	+	Throughout Europe, though not in America, there is a third class of men,
	+	more respected than either of the classes of workers. There are men who,
	+	through ownership of land, are able to make others pay for the privilege
	+	of being allowed to exist and to work. These landowners are idle, and I
	+	might therefore be expected to praise them. Unfortunately, their
	+	idleness is only rendered possible by the industry of others; indeed
	+	their desire for comfortable idleness is historically the source of the
	+	whole gospel of work. The last thing they have ever wished is that
	+	others should follow their example.
	+
	+	From the beginning of civilization until the Industrial Revolution, a
	+	man could, as a rule, produce by hard work little more than was required
	+	for the subsistence of himself and his family, although his wife worked
	+	at least as hard as he did, and his children added their labor as soon
	+	as they were old enough to do so. The small surplus above bare
	+	necessaries was not left to those who produced it, but was appropriated
	+	by warriors and priests. In times of famine there was no surplus; the
	+	warriors and priests, however, still secured as much as at other times,
	+	with the result that many of the workers died of hunger. This system
	+	persisted in Russia until 1917[[FootNote(Since then, members of the Communist Party have succeeded to this privilege of the warriors and priests.)]] and still persists in the East; in
	+	England, in spite of the Industrial Revolution, it remained in full
	+	force throughout the Napoleonic wars, and until a hundred years ago,
	+	when the new class of manufacturers acquired power. In America, the
	+	system came to an end with the Revolution, except in the South, where it
	+	persisted until the Civil War. A system which lasted so long and ended
	+	so recently has naturally left a profound impress upon men's thoughts
	+	and opinions. Much that we take for granted about the desirability of
	+	work is derived from this system, and, being pre-industrial, is not
	+	adapted to the modern world. Modern technique has made it possible for
	+	leisure, within limits, to be not the prerogative of small privileged
	+	classes, but a right evenly distributed throughout the community. The
	+	morality of work is the morality of slaves, and the modern world has no
	+	need of slavery.
	+
	+	It is obvious that, in primitive communities, peasants, left to
	+	themselves, would not have parted with the slender surplus upon which
	+	the warriors and priests subsisted, but would have either produced less
	+	or consumed more. At first, sheer force compelled them to produce and
	+	part with the surplus. Gradually, however, it was found possible to
	+	induce many of them to accept an ethic according to which it was their
	+	duty to work hard, although part of their work went to support others in
	+	idleness. By this means the amount of compulsion required was lessened,
	+	and the expenses of government were diminished. To this day, 99 per cent
	+	of British wage-earners would be genuinely shocked if it were proposed
	+	that the King should not have a larger income than a working man. The
	+	conception of duty, speaking historically, has been a means used by the
	+	holders of power to induce others to live for the interests of their
	+	masters rather than for their own. Of course the holders of power
	+	conceal this fact from themselves by managing to believe that their
	+	interests are identical with the larger interests of humanity. Sometimes
	+	this is true; Athenian slave-owners, for instance, employed part of
	+	their leisure in making a permanent contribution to civilization which
	+	would have been impossible under a just economic system. Leisure is
	+	essential to civilization, and in former times leisure for the few was
	+	only rendered possible by the labors of the many. But their labors were
	+	valuable, not because work is good, but because leisure is good. And
	+	with modern technique it would be possible to distribute leisure justly
	+	without injury to civilization.
	+
	+	Modern technique has made it possible to diminish enormously the amount
	+	of labor required to secure the necessaries of life for everyone. This
	+	was made obvious during the war. At that time all the men in the armed
	+	forces, and all the men and women engaged in the production of
	+	munitions, all the men and women engaged in spying, war propaganda, or
	+	Government offices connected with the war, were withdrawn from
	+	productive occupations. In spite of this, the general level of
	+	well-being among unskilled wage-earners on the side of the Allies was
	+	higher than before or since. The significance of this fact was concealed
	+	by finance: borrowing made it appear as if the future was nourishing the
	+	present. But that, of course, would have been impossible; a man cannot
	+	eat a loaf of bread that does not yet exist. The war showed conclusively
	+	that, by the scientific organization of production, it is possible to
	+	keep modern populations in fair comfort on a small part of the working
	+	capacity of the modern world. If, at the end of the war, the scientific
	+	organization, which had been created in order to liberate men for
	+	fighting and munition work, had been preserved, and the hours of the
	+	week had been cut down to four, all would have been well. Instead of
	+	that the old chaos was restored, those whose work was demanded were made
	+	to work long hours, and the rest were left to starve as unemployed. Why?
	+	Because work is a duty, and a man should not receive wages in proportion
	+	to what he has produced, but in proportion to his virtue as exemplified
	+	by his industry.
	+
	+	This is the morality of the Slave State, applied in circumstances
	+	totally unlike those in which it arose. No wonder the result has been
	+	disastrous. Let us take an illustration. Suppose that, at a given
	+	moment, a certain number of people are engaged in the manufacture of
	+	pins. They make as many pins as the world needs, working (say) eight
	+	hours a day. Someone makes an invention by which the same number of men
	+	can make twice as many pins: pins are already so cheap that hardly any
	+	more will be bought at a lower price. In a sensible world, everybody
	+	concerned in the manufacturing of pins would take to working four hours
	+	instead of eight, and everything else would go on as before. But in the
	+	actual world this would be thought demoralizing. The men still work
	+	eight hours, there are too many pins, some employers go bankrupt, and
	+	half the men previously concerned in making pins are thrown out of work.
	+	There is, in the end, just as much leisure as on the other plan, but
	+	half the men are totally idle while half are still overworked. In this
	+	way, it is insured that the unavoidable leisure shall cause misery all
	+	round instead of being a universal source of happiness. Can anything
	+	more insane be imagined?
	+
	+	The idea that the poor should have leisure has always been shocking to
	+	the rich. In England, in the early nineteenth century, fifteen hours was
	+	the ordinary day's work for a man; children sometimes did as much, and
	+	very commonly did twelve hours a day. When meddlesome busybodies
	+	suggested that perhaps these hours were rather long, they were told that
	+	work kept adults from drink and children from mischief. When I was a
	+	child, shortly after urban working men had acquired the vote, certain
	+	public holidays were established by law, to the great indignation of the
	+	upper classes. I remember hearing an old Duchess say: 'What do the poor
	+	want with holidays? They ought to work.' People nowadays are less frank,
	+	but the sentiment persists, and is the source of much of our economic
	+	confusion.
	+
	+	Let us, for a moment, consider the ethics of work frankly, without
	+	superstition. Every human being, of necessity, consumes, in the course
	+	of his life, a certain amount of the produce of human labor. Assuming,
	+	as we may, that labor is on the whole disagreeable, it is unjust that a
	+	man should consume more than he produces. Of course he may provide
	+	services rather than commodities, like a medical man, for example; but
	+	he should provide something in return for his board and lodging. to this
	+	extent, the duty of work must be admitted, but to this extent only.
	+
	+	I shall not dwell upon the fact that, in all modern societies outside
	+	the USSR, many people escape even this minimum amount of work, namely
	+	all those who inherit money and all those who marry money. I do not
	+	think the fact that these people are allowed to be idle is nearly so
	+	harmful as the fact that wage-earners are expected to overwork or starve.
	+
	+	If the ordinary wage-earner worked four hours a day, there would be
	+	enough for everybody and no unemployment -- assuming a certain very
	+	moderate amount of sensible organization. This idea shocks the
	+	well-to-do, because they are convinced that the poor would not know how
	+	to use so much leisure. In America men often work long hours even when
	+	they are well off; such men, naturally, are indignant at the idea of
	+	leisure for wage-earners, except as the grim punishment of unemployment;
	+	in fact, they dislike leisure even for their sons. Oddly enough, while
	+	they wish their sons to work so hard as to have no time to be civilized,
	+	they do not mind their wives and daughters having no work at all. the
	+	snobbish admiration of uselessness, which, in an aristocratic society,
	+	extends to both sexes, is, under a plutocracy, confined to women; this,
	+	however, does not make it any more in agreement with common sense.
	+
	+	The wise use of leisure, it must be conceded, is a product of
	+	civilization and education. A man who has worked long hours all his life
	+	will become bored if he becomes suddenly idle. But without a
	+	considerable amount of leisure a man is cut off from many of the best
	+	things. There is no longer any reason why the bulk of the population
	+	should suffer this deprivation; only a foolish asceticism, usually
	+	vicarious, makes us continue to insist on work in excessive quantities
	+	now that the need no longer exists.
	+
	+	In the new creed which controls the government of Russia, while there is
	+	much that is very different from the traditional teaching of the West,
	+	there are some things that are quite unchanged. The attitude of the
	+	governing classes, and especially of those who conduct educational
	+	propaganda, on the subject of the dignity of labor, is almost exactly
	+	that which the governing classes of the world have always preached to
	+	what were called the 'honest poor'. Industry, sobriety, willingness to
	+	work long hours for distant advantages, even submissiveness to
	+	authority, all these reappear; moreover authority still represents the
	+	will of the Ruler of the Universe, Who, however, is now called by a new
	+	name, Dialectical Materialism.
	+
	+	The victory of the proletariat in Russia has some points in common with
	+	the victory of the feminists in some other countries. For ages, men had
	+	conceded the superior saintliness of women, and had consoled women for
	+	their inferiority by maintaining that saintliness is more desirable than
	+	power. At last the feminists decided that they would have both, since
	+	the pioneers among them believed all that the men had told them about
	+	the desirability of virtue, but not what they had told them about the
	+	worthlessness of political power. A similar thing has happened in Russia
	+	as regards manual work. For ages, the rich and their sycophants have
	+	written in praise of 'honest toil', have praised the simple life, have
	+	professed a religion which teaches that the poor are much more likely to
	+	go to heaven than the rich, and in general have tried to make manual
	+	workers believe that there is some special nobility about altering the
	+	position of matter in space, just as men tried to make women believe
	+	that they derived some special nobility from their sexual enslavement.
	+	In Russia, all this teaching about the excellence of manual work has
	+	been taken seriously, with the result that the manual worker is more
	+	honored than anyone else. What are, in essence, revivalist appeals are
	+	made, but not for the old purposes: they are made to secure shock
	+	workers for special tasks. Manual work is the ideal which is held before
	+	the young, and is the basis of all ethical teaching.
	+
	+	For the present, possibly, this is all to the good. A large country,
	+	full of natural resources, awaits development, and has has to be
	+	developed with very little use of credit. In these circumstances, hard
	+	work is necessary, and is likely to bring a great reward. But what will
	+	happen when the point has been reached where everybody could be
	+	comfortable without working long hours?
	+
	+	In the West, we have various ways of dealing with this problem. We have
	+	no attempt at economic justice, so that a large proportion of the total
	+	produce goes to a small minority of the population, many of whom do no
	+	work at all. Owing to the absence of any central control over
	+	production, we produce hosts of things that are not wanted. We keep a
	+	large percentage of the working population idle, because we can dispense
	+	with their labor by making the others overwork. When all these methods
	+	prove inadequate, we have a war: we cause a number of people to
	+	manufacture high explosives, and a number of others to explode them, as
	+	if we were children who had just discovered fireworks. By a combination
	+	of all these devices we manage, though with difficulty, to keep alive
	+	the notion that a great deal of severe manual work must be the lot of
	+	the average man.
	+
	+	In Russia, owing to more economic justice and central control over
	+	production, the problem will have to be differently solved. the rational
	+	solution would be, as soon as the necessaries and elementary comforts
	+	can be provided for all, to reduce the hours of labor gradually,
	+	allowing a popular vote to decide, at each stage, whether more leisure
	+	or more goods were to be preferred. But, having taught the supreme
	+	virtue of hard work, it is difficult to see how the authorities can aim
	+	at a paradise in which there will be much leisure and little work. It
	+	seems more likely that they will find continually fresh schemes, by
	+	which present leisure is to be sacrificed to future productivity. I read
	+	recently of an ingenious plan put forward by Russian engineers, for
	+	making the White Sea and the northern coasts of Siberia warm, by putting
	+	a dam across the Kara Sea. An admirable project, but liable to postpone
	+	proletarian comfort for a generation, while the nobility of toil is
	+	being displayed amid the ice-fields and snowstorms of the Arctic Ocean.
	+	This sort of thing, if it happens, will be the result of regarding the
	+	virtue of hard work as an end in itself, rather than as a means to a
	+	state of affairs in which it is no longer needed.
	+
	+	The fact is that moving matter about, while a certain amount of it is
	+	necessary to our existence, is emphatically not one of the ends of human
	+	life. If it were, we should have to consider every navvy superior to
	+	Shakespeare. We have been misled in this matter by two causes. One is
	+	the necessity of keeping the poor contented, which has led the rich, for
	+	thousands of years, to preach the dignity of labor, while taking care
	+	themselves to remain undignified in this respect. The other is the new
	+	pleasure in mechanism, which makes us delight in the astonishingly
	+	clever changes that we can produce on the earth's surface. Neither of
	+	these motives makes any great appeal to the actual worker. If you ask
	+	him what he thinks the best part of his life, he is not likely to say:
	+	'I enjoy manual work because it makes me feel that I am fulfilling man's
	+	noblest task, and because I like to think how much man can transform his
	+	planet. It is true that my body demands periods of rest, which I have to
	+	fill in as best I may, but I am never so happy as when the morning comes
	+	and I can return to the toil from which my contentment springs.' I have
	+	never heard working men say this sort of thing. They consider work, as
	+	it should be considered, a necessary means to a livelihood, and it is
	+	from their leisure that they derive whatever happiness they may enjoy.
	+
	+	It will be said that, while a little leisure is pleasant, men would not
	+	know how to fill their days if they had only four hours of work out of
	+	the twenty-four. In so far as this is true in the modern world, it is a
	+	condemnation of our civilization; it would not have been true at any
	+	earlier period. There was formerly a capacity for light-heartedness and
	+	play which has been to some extent inhibited by the cult of efficiency.
	+	The modern man thinks that everything ought to be done for the sake of
	+	something else, and never for its own sake. Serious-minded persons, for
	+	example, are continually condemning the habit of going to the cinema,
	+	and telling us that it leads the young into crime. But all the work that
	+	goes to producing a cinema is respectable, because it is work, and
	+	because it brings a money profit. The notion that the desirable
	+	activities are those that bring a profit has made everything
	+	topsy-turvy. The butcher who provides you with meat and the baker who
	+	provides you with bread are praiseworthy, because they are making money;
	+	but when you enjoy the food they have provided, you are merely
	+	frivolous, unless you eat only to get strength for your work. Broadly
	+	speaking, it is held that getting money is good and spending money is
	+	bad. Seeing that they are two sides of one transaction, this is absurd;
	+	one might as well maintain that keys are good, but keyholes are bad.
	+	Whatever merit there may be in the production of goods must be entirely
	+	derivative from the advantage to be obtained by consuming them. The
	+	individual, in our society, works for profit; but the social purpose of
	+	his work lies in the consumption of what he produces. It is this divorce
	+	between the individual and the social purpose of production that makes
	+	it so difficult for men to think clearly in a world in which
	+	profit-making is the incentive to industry. We think too much of
	+	production, and too little of consumption. One result is that we attach
	+	too little importance to enjoyment and simple happiness, and that we do
	+	not judge production by the pleasure that it gives to the consumer.
	+
	+	When I suggest that working hours should be reduced to four, I am not
	+	meaning to imply that all the remaining time should necessarily be spent
	+	in pure frivolity. I mean that four hours' work a day should entitle a
	+	man to the necessities and elementary comforts of life, and that the
	+	rest of his time should be his to use as he might see fit. It is an
	+	essential part of any such social system that education should be
	+	carried further than it usually is at present, and should aim, in part,
	+	at providing tastes which would enable a man to use leisure
	+	intelligently. I am not thinking mainly of the sort of things that would
	+	be considered 'highbrow'. Peasant dances have died out except in remote
	+	rural areas, but the impulses which caused them to be cultivated must
	+	still exist in human nature. The pleasures of urban populations have
	+	become mainly passive: seeing cinemas, watching football matches,
	+	listening to the radio, and so on. This results from the fact that their
	+	active energies are fully taken up with work; if they had more leisure,
	+	they would again enjoy pleasures in which they took an active part.
	+
	+	In the past, there was a small leisure class and a larger working class.
	+	The leisure class enjoyed advantages for which there was no basis in
	+	social justice; this necessarily made it oppressive, limited its
	+	sympathies, and caused it to invent theories by which to justify its
	+	privileges. These facts greatly diminished its excellence, but in spite
	+	of this drawback it contributed nearly the whole of what we call
	+	civilization. It cultivated the arts and discovered the sciences; it
	+	wrote the books, invented the philosophies, and refined social
	+	relations. Even the liberation of the oppressed has usually been
	+	inaugurated from above. Without the leisure class, mankind would never
	+	have emerged from barbarism.
	+
	+	The method of a leisure class without duties was, however,
	+	extraordinarily wasteful. None of the members of the class had to be
	+	taught to be industrious, and the class as a whole was not exceptionally
	+	intelligent. The class might produce one Darwin, but against him had to
	+	be set tens of thousands of country gentlemen who never thought of
	+	anything more intelligent than fox-hunting and punishing poachers. At
	+	present, the universities are supposed to provide, in a more systematic
	+	way, what the leisure class provided accidentally and as a by-product.
	+	This is a great improvement, but it has certain drawbacks. University
	+	life is so different from life in the world at large that men who live
	+	in academic milieu tend to be unaware of the preoccupations and problems
	+	of ordinary men and women; moreover their ways of expressing themselves
	+	are usually such as to rob their opinions of the influence that they
	+	ought to have upon the general public. Another disadvantage is that in
	+	universities studies are organized, and the man who thinks of some
	+	original line of research is likely to be discouraged. Academic
	+	institutions, therefore, useful as they are, are not adequate guardians
	+	of the interests of civilization in a world where everyone outside their
	+	walls is too busy for unutilitarian pursuits.
	+
	+	In a world where no one is compelled to work more than four hours a day,
	+	every person possessed of scientific curiosity will be able to indulge
	+	it, and every painter will be able to paint without starving, however
	+	excellent his pictures may be. Young writers will not be obliged to draw
	+	attention to themselves by sensational pot-boilers, with a view to
	+	acquiring the economic independence needed for monumental works, for
	+	which, when the time at last comes, they will have lost the taste and
	+	capacity. Men who, in their professional work, have become interested in
	+	some phase of economics or government, will be able to develop their
	+	ideas without the academic detachment that makes the work of university
	+	economists often seem lacking in reality. Medical men will have the time
	+	to learn about the progress of medicine, teachers will not be
	+	exasperatedly struggling to teach by routine methods things which they
	+	learnt in their youth, which may, in the interval, have been proved to
	+	be untrue.
	+
	+	Above all, there will be happiness and joy of life, instead of frayed
	+	nerves, weariness, and dyspepsia. The work exacted will be enough to
	+	make leisure delightful, but not enough to produce exhaustion. Since men
	+	will not be tired in their spare time, they will not demand only such
	+	amusements as are passive and vapid. At least one per cent will probably
	+	devote the time not spent in professional work to pursuits of some
	+	public importance, and, since they will not depend upon these pursuits
	+	for their livelihood, their originality will be unhampered, and there
	+	will be no need to conform to the standards set by elderly pundits. But
	+	it is not only in these exceptional cases that the advantages of leisure
	+	will appear. Ordinary men and women, having the opportunity of a happy
	+	life, will become more kindly and less persecuting and less inclined to
	+	view others with suspicion. The taste for war will die out, partly for
	+	this reason, and partly because it will involve long and severe work for
	+	all. Good nature is, of all moral qualities, the one that the world
	+	needs most, and good nature is the result of ease and security, not of a
	+	life of arduous struggle. Modern methods of production have given us the
	+	possibility of ease and security for all; we have chosen, instead, to
	+	have overwork for some and starvation for others. Hitherto we have
	+	continued to be as energetic as we were before there were machines; in
	+	this we have been foolish, but there is no reason to go on being foolish
	+	forever.
	+
	+	This text was first provided by the Massachusetts Green Party.
	+	Source: http://www.zpub.com/notes/idle.html
	+
	+	____
	+	[[FootNote]]
	+
	+	----
	+
	+

max

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	+	====== General ======
	+	* http://www.marvistavet.com/html/body_ruptured_anterior_cruciate_lig.html
	+	* http://www.acvs.org/AnimalOwners/HealthConditions/SmallAnimalTopics/CranialCruciateLigamentRupture/
	+	* Changing Views on CCL repairs
	+	* http://www.veterinarypracticenews.com/vet-practice-news-columns/complementary-medicine/changing-views-on-ccl-repair.aspx
	+	===== Reference =====
	+	* http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/orthodogs/files/CCL%20Studies%20and%20Articles/
	+
	+	====== TPLO ======
	+	* http://vetsurgerycentral.com/tplo.htm
	+	* 90% of the dogs having the TPLO regain normal or near normal function of the limb (full weight-bearing)
	+	* http://www.slocumenterprises.com/
	+	* surgery alternatives and questions for surgeon
	+	* http://ask.metafilter.com/72478/To-TPLO-or-not-to-TPLO

	+	====== TightRope CCL ======
	+	* MERLE MARKS; BECKY MARKS TIMBERLAND ANIMAL CLINIC, 18110 SE DIVISION STREET - 503-665-1194
	+	* http://www.timbervet.com/Tightrope%2520CCL.html
	+	* http://dogkneeinjury.com/
	+
	+
	+
	+	====== Conventional ======
	+	===== Lateral Suture Stabilization =====
	+	* http://dogkneeinjury.com/
	+	* http://home.earthlink.net/~tiggerpoz/id3.html
	+
	+	====== Questions ======
	+
	+	* general prognoses for his overall health - worth doing the surgery?
	+
	+	* how many TPLO/traditional surgeries performed on similar dogs?
	+	* rate of success for each?
	+	* rate of complications?
	+	* financial impacts?
	+	* full explanation of surgical procedure
	+	* determine from xrays the appropriateness of traditional vs. TPLO?
	+
	+	* % percentage of tear - tell from xray?
	+	* for traditional
	+	* % successes
	+	* success related to rehabilitation process
	+
	+	* suitability of traditional extra/intracapsular repair?
	+	* how does stabilizing material work vs. dog's own regenerated tissue?
	+
	+	* how is anesthesia administered?
	+	* dedicated tech anaesthetist and vet assistant
	+	* heart monitor and O2 sat monitor, and they should be taking regular blood pressure readings during the procedure
	+
	+	* meds for pain control -
	+	* ''(at least pre-op sedation and intra and post-op analgesia, plus a Fentanyl (or comparable) patch for a day or two, plus pain medication to go home with (opiates plus NSAIDs or comparable)''
	+
	+	* cost increases over last few years?
	+	* licensing costs to do procedure? Out of patent?
	+
	+	* Quote
	+	* additional follow up xrays/charges?
	+	* surgical fee for 1 vs. 2 - extra hours?
	+
	+	* physical therapy recommendations & costs
	+
	+	* copy of written diagnoses from exam
	+
	+
	+	----
	+	====== Food ======
	+	Naturapet Innova EVO
	+	* http://www.naturapet.com/brands/evo.asp
	+	* 28lb bag $49 = $1.75/lb
	+	* 11th bag is free
	+
	+	Drs. Foster & Smith Lamb & Brown Rice Formula
	+	* http://www.drsfostersmith.com/product/prod_display.cfm?c=3307+8734+9414&pcatid=9414
	+	* 4x 30lb bags @ $110 + $14 shipping = $124/120 = $1/lb
	+	* every 10th order is free
	+
	+	Natural Balance Duck & Potato
	+	* 30lb bag @ $47 = $1.57/lb
	+	* 11th bag is free
	+
	+	=== Supplements ===
	+	* http://www.puritan.com/
	+	* http://www.cortaflex.com/
	+	* http://www.vetriscience.com/glyco-flex-III.php
	+
	+
	+
	+	====== Medication ======
	+	* http://www.petvetdirect.com/home.asp

michellevanvoorhies

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		+

milkcrates

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	+	====== Milk Crates ======

	+	* http://www.idairycrates.com/
	+	* [[farmplastic@gmail.com]]
	+
	+	16qt
	+	* $4 ea in black
	+	* +$1 for colors
	+
	+	24qt
	+	* $6 ea in black
	+	* +$1 for colors
	+
	+
	+	Shipping
	+	* Max 6 of either size per box
	+	* $20 east coast, $24 midwest, $28 west coast
	+	* 96 crates per pallet

movies

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 03:54:10 +0000

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	+
	+
	+
	+	====== Seen ======
	+	======= Comedy =======
	+	*American Movie - http://us.imdb.com/Title?0181288
	+	*Amelie - http://imdb.com/title/tt0211915/
	+	*Bottle Rocket - http://us.imdb.com/Title?0115734
	+	*Castle, The - http://us.imdb.com/Title?0118826
	+	*Darjeeling Limited
	+	*Dodgeball -
	+	*Down By Law - http://us.imdb.com/Title?0090967
	+	*East is East - http://us.imdb.com/Title?0166175
	+	*Hedwig and the Angry Inch - http://us.imdb.com/Title?0248845
	+	*Life Aquatic
	+	*Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels - http://us.imdb.com/Title?0120735
	+	*Monsoon Wedding - http://us.imdb.com/Title?0265343
	+	*Office Space - http://us.imdb.com/Title?0151804
	+	*Raising Arizona - http://us.imdb.com/Title?0093822
	+	*Royal Tenenbaums - http://us.imdb.com/Title?0265666
	+	*Sherman's March - http://us.imdb.com/Title?0091943
	+	*Shrek - http://us.imdb.com/Title?0126029
	+	*Snatch - http://us.imdb.com/Title?0126029
	+	*Suicide Kings - http://imdb.com/title/tt0120241/
	+	*Withnail and I - http://us.imdb.com/Title?0094336
	+
	+	======= Drama =======
	+	*Angels and Insects - http://us.imdb.com/Title?0112365
	+	*Babel
	+	*Bound - http://us.imdb.com/Title?0115736
	+	*Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon - http://us.imdb.com/Title?0190332
	+	*Darjeeling Limited
	+	*Fargo - http://us.imdb.com/Title?0116282
	+	*Fight Club - http://us.imdb.com/Title?0137523
	+	*Five Senses - http://us.imdb.com/Title?0168794
	+	*Game, The - http://us.imdb.com/Title?0119174
	+	*Ghost World - http://us.imdb.com/Title?0162346
	+	*Heaven - dir. Tom Tykwer - http://us.imdb.com/Title?0246677
	+	*Life is Beautiful - (La Vita Ã¨ bella) - http://us.imdb.com/Title?0118799
	+	*Magnolia - http://us.imdb.com/Title?0175880
	+	*Memento - http://us.imdb.com/Title?0209144
	+	*Mulholland Dr. - http://us.imdb.com/Title?0166924
	+	*Mystery Train - dir. Jim Jarmush - http://us.imdb.com/Title?0097940
	+	*My Left Foot - http://us.imdb.com/Title?0097937
	+	*Night on Earth - Jim Jarmush - http://us.imdb.com/Title?0102536
	+	*Pianist, The - http://us.imdb.com/Title?0253474
	+	*Pi - Requiem for a Dream Director's 1st movie. - http://us.imdb.com/Title?0138704
	+	*Princess and the Warrior, The - dir. Tom Tykwer - http://us.imdb.com/Title?0203632
	+	*Raising Victor Vargas - http://us.imdb.com/Title?0316188
	+	*Red Violin, The - http://us.imdb.com/Title?0120802
	+	*Requiem For a Dream - Heroin addicts go down the tubes in two hours. - http://us.imdb.com/Title?0180093
	+	*Run Lola Run - dir. Tom Tykwer - http://us.imdb.com/Title?0130827
	+	*Sex and Lucia
	+	*Stranger Than Paradise - http://us.imdb.com/Title?0088184
	+	*Usual Suspects - http://us.imdb.com/Title?0114814
	+	*Y Tu Mama Tambien - http://us.imdb.com/Title?0245574
	+	*War Zone, The - http://us.imdb.com/Title?0141974
	+
	+	======= Action =======
	+	*Iron Monkey - Best Kung Fu movie ever. Wu Ping coreographed. http://us.imdb.com/Title?0108148
	+
	+	======= Animated =======
	+	*The Wrong Trousers (or anything Wallace and Grommit)
	+
	+	======= Foreign =======
	+	*Delicatessen
	+
	+	======= Special =======
	+	*Cremaster 3 - http://us.imdb.com/Title?0321781
	+	*Baraka - Visual montage of the world. http://us.imdb.com/Title?0103767
	+	*Chronos - Baraka director's first movie. http://us.imdb.com/Title?0088919
	+
	+	======= Documentary =======
	+	*Bowling for Columbine - http://us.imdb.com/Title?0310793
	+	*Buena Vista Social Club - http://us.imdb.com/Title?0186508
	+	*Dark Days - amazing movie, and the documentary about it is even neater - http://us.imdb.com/Title?0235327
	+	*Ghengis Blues - Black American blues singer travels to Tuva to compete in throat singing contest. http://us.imdb.com/Title?0187859
	+
	+	======= Classic =======
	+	*Duck Soup -- '27 and '33
	+	*The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly
	+	*Lawrence of Arabia - http://us.imdb.com/Title?0056172
	+	*Metropolis - http://us.imdb.com/Title?0017136
	+
	+	======= Western =======
	+	*Unforgiven
	+
	+	\\
	+	====== To See ======
	+
	+	*A Passage to India
	+	*The Color Purple
	+	*Kiss of the Spider Woman
	+	*JFK
	+	*Scent of a Woman
	+	*Remains of the Day
	+	*Much Ado About Nothing
	+	*Miller's Crossing
	+	*Little Women
	+	*The Scarlet Letter
	+	*House of Games
	+	*The Lost Weekend
	+	*Dial M for Murder
	+	*Dark Days
	+	*My Life as a Dog - http://us.imdb.com/Title?0089606
	+	*The Fast Runner - http://us.imdb.com/Title?0285441
	+	*Minority Report
	+	*following two by
	+	*Spanking the Monkey
	+	*Flirting with Disaster
	+	*Romance and Cigarettes - John Turturro dir.
	+
	+	======= gaeta picks =======
	+	*metropolis - http://us.imdb.com/Title?0017136
	+	*koyaanisqatsi - http://us.imdb.com/Title?0085809
	+	*the mirror - http://us.imdb.com/Title?0072443
	+	*slaughterhouse-five - http://us.imdb.com/Title?0069280 (seen?)
	+	*the omega man -
	+
	+	======= general to see =======
	+	*Henry & June
	+	*A Mighty Wind
	+	*13 Conversations About the Same Thing
	+	*8 1/2
	+	*9 Queens
	+
	+	*Baron Muchousen - Terry Gilliam
	+	*Bicycle Theif
	+	*Bonnie and Clyde
	+	*Bread and Roses
	+	*Cane Toad
	+	*Dreamworlds II
	+	*Faces
	+	*The Forbidden
	+	*Gloria
	+	*Heist
	+	*House of Games
	+	*Husbands
	+	*Idle Hands
	+	*India Cabaret
	+	*Juliet of the Spirit
	+	*Killing of a Chineese Bookie
	+	*Lost in La Mancha
	+	*Le Strada
	+	*Love and Pop
	+	*Man Ray
	+	*Micky and Nicky
	+	*Minnie and Moskowitz
	+	*Mississippi Masala
	+	*Ned Kelly
	+	*Opening Night
	+	*Porcile
	+	*Raging Bull
	+	*Salaam Bombay
	+	*The Stunt Man
	+	*Zoofilia
	+	*Zoot Suit
	+
	+	======= general to see 2 =======
	+	*Tattoo
	+	*The Pianist
	+	*Happiness --same director as Welcome to the Dollhouse
	+	*Once Upon a Time in America --Robert ![[DeNiro]]
	+	*Bliss
	+	*Don Juan de Marco
	+	*Chinese Ghost Story I (kung fu)
	+	*Gangs of New York
	+	*Portrait of a Lady
	+	*The Nun's Story --Audrey Hepburn
	+	*Charade --Audrey Hepburn
	+	*Sabrina (1954) --Audrey Hepburn
	+	*The King and I
	+	*To Kill A Mockingbird --Gregory Peck
	+	*Blood Simple --Joel and Ethan Cohen
	+	*This Property Is Condemned --Natalie Wood Robert Redford
	+	*Eight Men Out --baseball scandal
	+	*Salome ('88 or '89) --John the Baptist in prison.
	+	*Paradise Road --Japanese attack Singaporan people fleeing during WWII
	+	*Tous les Matins du Monde --All the mornings of the world
	+	*The Crucible
	+	*She's the One
	+	*House of Games
	+	*The Manchurian Candidate Frank Sinatra and Angela Lansbury
	+	*Underground - http://us.imdb.com/Title?0114787
	+	*The Wicker Man - http://us.imdb.com/Title?0070917
	+	*The Fountain (Pi, Requiem)
	+
	+	======= Ulrich Movies to See =======
	+	*This is Spinal Tap - http://us.imdb.com/Title?0088258
	+	*Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - http://us.imdb.com/Title?0120669
	+	*American Movie
	+	*Baraka
	+	*Office Space
	+
	+
	+	----
	+
	+

ourstupidgovernment

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	+	Pentagon's new world map - http://www.nwc.navy.mil/newrulesets/[[ThePentagonsNewMap]].htm
	+
	+	gulf war drinking game - http://www.gulfwardrinkinggame.com/
	+
	+	[[WarmongerExplainsWarToAPeacenik]]
	+
	+	attachment:al-qaeda-girlfriend.gif
	+
	+	Get Your War On - http://www.mnftiu.cc/mnftiu.cc/war.html
	+
	+	"Dude, where's my war?" - http://www.buildering.net/politics/politics.html
	+
	+	Government "preparedness" web site parody - http://cirka.net/duck_and_cover.html
	+
	+	War profiteering card deck - http://www.warprofiteers.com
	+
	+	attachment:this_modern_world-the_moon.jpg
	+
	+	John Gilmore's story of being ejected from a plane for wearing a
	+	button reading "Suspected Terrorist": http://www.politechbot.com/p-04973.html
	+
	+
	+	George W. Bush Resume:
	+
	+
	+	GEORGE W. BUSH: MY ACCOMPLISHMENTS AS PRESIDENT:
	+
	+	I spent the U.S. surplus and bankrupted the US Treasury. I shattered the record for the biggest annual deficit in history. I set an economic record for the most personal bankruptcies filed in any 12-month period. I set all-time record for the biggest drop in the history of the stock market. I am the first president in decades to execute a federal prisoner. I am the first president in US history to enter office with a criminal record.
	+
	+	In my first year in office I set the all-time record for most days on vacation by any president in US history (tough to beat my dad's, but I did it). After taking the entire month of August, 2001, off for vacation, I presided over the worst security failure in US history. I set the record for most campaign fundraising trips by any president. In my first two years in office over 2 million Americans lost their jobs. I cut unemployment benefits for more out-of-work Americans than any other president. I set the all-time record for most real estate foreclosures in a 12-month period. I appointed more convicted criminals to administration positions than any other president. I set the record for the fewest press conferences of any president since the advent of TV. I signed more laws and executive orders amending the Constitution than any other US president. I presided over the biggest energy crises in US history and refused to intervene when corruption was revealed. I cut health care benefits for war veterans. I set
	+	the all-time record for most people worldwide (fifteen million) to simultaneously take to the streets to protest my actions, shattering the record for protest against any person in the history of mankind. I dissolved more international treaties than any other president. I've made my presidency the most secretive and unaccountable of any other--even Nixon's. Members of my cabinet are the richest of any administration in US history. The poorest multimillionaire, Condoleeza Rice, has a Chevron oil tanker named after her. I am the first president in US history to have all 50 states simultaneously struggle against bankruptcy. I presided over the biggest corporate stock market fraud in any market in any country in the history of the world. I am the first president in US history to order a US attack and military occupation of a sovereign nation, and I did so against the will of the United Nations and the vast majority of the international community. I have created the largest government department bureaucracy in the history of the United States, the "Bureau of Homeland Security."
	+
	+	I set the all-time record for biggest annual budget spending increases. I am the first president in US history to compel the United Nations to remove the US from the Human Rights Commission. I am the first president in US history to have the United Nations to remove the US from the Elections Monitoring Board. I removed more checks and balances, and have the least amount of congressional oversight, than any other presidential administration. I rendered the entire United Nations irrelevant. I withdrew from the World Court of Law. I refused to allow inspectors access to US prisoners of war and by default no longer abide by the Geneva Conventions. I am the first president in US history to refuse United Nations election inspectors access during the 2002 US elections. I am the all-time US (and world) record holder for most corporate campaign donations.
	+
	+
	+	Kenneth Lay, former CEO of Enron Corporation and the biggest lifetime contributor to my campaign and who also is a personal friend, presided over one of the largest corporate bankruptcy frauds in world history. I spent more money on polls and focus groups than any other president. I am the first president to run and hide when the US came under attack (and then lied, saying the enemy had the code to Air Force 1). I am the first US president to establish a secret shadow government. I took the world's sympathy for the US after September 11th, and in less than a year made the US the most resented country in the world. I am the first US president in history to have a majority of the people of Europe (71%) view my presidency as the biggest threat to world peace and stability. I changed US policy to allow convicted criminals to be awarded government contracts. I set the all-time record for the number of administration appointees who
	+	violated US law by not selling their huge investments in corporations bidding for government contracts. I have removed more freedoms and civil liberties for Americans than any other president in US history. In a little over two years I have polarized the country to the greatest extent since the Civil War. I entered office with the strongest economy in US history and in less than two years turned every single economic category heading straight down.
	+
	+	RECORDS AND REFERENCES:
	+
	+	I have at least one conviction for drunk driving in Maine (Texasdriving record has been erased and is not available). I was AWOL from the National Guard and deserted the military during time of war. I refuse to take a drug test or even answer any questions about drug use. All records of my tenure as governor of Texas have been spirited away to my father's library, sealed in secrecy and unavailable for public view. All records of any SEC investigations into my insider trading or bankrupt companies are sealed in secrecy and unavailable for public view. All minutes of meetings of any public corporation for which I served on the board are sealed in secrecy and unavailable for public view. All records or minutes from meetings I or my vice president attended regarding public energy policy are sealed in secrecy and unavailable for public review.
	+
	+	PERSONAL REFERENCES:
	+
	+	For personal references, please speak to my dad or Uncle James Baker. They can be reached in their offices at the Carlyle Group where they are helping to divide up the spoils of the US-Iraq war and plan for the next one.
	+
	+	And a few more items not to overlook...
	+
	+	*no child left behind . . .
	+	*cutting of federal monies to agencies that offer alternative forms of birth control . . .That happened just a few weeks ago and affects our country and 3rd world countries that receive aid.
	+	*attempting to tap unspoiled lands for oil, purportedly less than 3% of the world oil is in Alaska's national refuge. . .
	+	*Halliburton oil contracts in Iraq . . .
	+	*The attempt to roll all retirement programs into the stock market-remember that one??
	+	*the attempt to eliminate funding of FEMA, said we didn't need FEMA, we don't really have disasters. Guess he was wrong.
	+
	+
	+
	+	----
	+
	+

portlandnotes

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 03:54:12 +0000

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	+	====== Food and Drink ======
	+	* Baked - mac and cheese
	+	* Alberta
	+	* http://www.yelp.com/biz/baked-pdx-portland
	+	* Coalition Brewing
	+	* Wed - $2.50 HH pints (3-6)
	+	* Vincente's pizza
	+
	+
	+	====== Sights and Stuff ======
	+	* Chinese garden
	+	* a beach
	+	* kayaking
	+
	+
	+

republicansareevilfucks

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 03:54:14 +0000

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	+
	+
	+	* Daily Reasons to Dispatch Bush - http://www.mcsweeneys.net/links/bush/
	+

robvanvoorhies

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 03:54:14 +0000

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	+	======= Wiki Formatting Notes =======

	+	New page creation:
	+	- type in new page name in URL bar to generate page
	+	- select template for style of page you want to create
	+	- add content in formatted as marked on template
	+	- assign category to page with drop down menu at bottom of page
	+	- save page and verify formatting is correct
	+	- edit page again and assign appropriate additional categories to the page. Select from drop down list to see what's available.
	+	- check category page to make sure new page shows up in automatic classification
	+
	+	Special items to watch out for:
	+	- use `` at header of page to turn header numbering off
	+	- To force a wiki word not to link, directly precede it with an exclamation mark, e.g. <code>![[DontLinkMe]]</code>
	+	- reference other existing pages
	+
	+	======= Wiki Help Reference =======
	+	*[[wiki:syntax]]

sonyericsson

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 03:54:15 +0000

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	+	====== Phones ======
	+	* G705 - quad, 3g, edge, wifi, gps
	+	* http://www.sonyericsson.com/cws/corporate/products/phoneportfolio/specification/g705
	+	* http://www.mobiunlim.com/Sony_Phones_s/40.htm

	+	====== Firmware ======
	+
	+	====== Software ======
	+	SE Themes creator
	+	*http://developer.sonyericsson.com/site/global/docstools/multimedia/p_multimedia.jsp
	+
	+	Feisar isync plugins
	+	* http://www.feisar.com/plugins.php
	+
	+	====== Service ======
	+
	+	http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=579256
	+	<code>
	+	There's only one authorized repair center in the USA. They handle the
	+	full scope of repairs:
	+
	+	Arvato Services, Inc. (1)
	+	29011 Commerce Center Drive
	+	Valencia, CA 91355
	+	(800) 223-1478 ext. 7622
	+	</code>

start

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	\\		\\
-	Welcome to the cirka wiki. Check the Sitemap or Recent Changes buttons.	+	Welcome to the cirka wiki. Check the Sitemap or Recent Changes links at bottom.

	Recipes can also be found in [[recipe:recipesummary]]		Recipes can also be found in [[recipe:recipesummary]]

storage

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 03:54:16 +0000

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	+	====== Storage Containers ======
	+	* drop off 6/2 p/u 6/6
	+	* ~9/7
	+
	+
	+	===== Sam =====
	+	* http://www.getasam.com/
	+	* container size: 8'H x 8'W x 16' D = 1024 cu ft.
	+
	+	^ delivery + 1st month Outside storage ^ Sept. delivery ^ month 2 storage ^ month 3 storage ^ Total ^
	+	\| $218 \| $148 \| $149 \| $149 \| $664 \|
	+
	+	^ delivery + 1st month Inside storage ^ Sept. delivery ^ month 2 storage ^ month 3 storage ^ Total ^
	+	\| $238 \| $148 \| $169 \| $169 \| $724 \|
	+
	+	Questions:
	+	* pro-rated for partial 4th month?
	+
	+
	+	===== Pods =====
	+	* http://www.pods.com/
	+	* container sizes: (http://www.pods.com/Default.aspx?tabid=272)
	+	* 8'H x 7'W x 7'D = 392 cu ft
	+	* 8'H x 8'W x 12'D = 768 cu ft
	+	* 8'H x 8'W x 16'D = 1024 cu ft
	+
	+	^ size ^ drop off/pick up ^ Sept. delivery ^ month 2 storage ^ month 3 storage ^ Total ^
	+	\| 7' \| $168 \| $89 \| $99 \| $129 \| $485 \|
	+	\| 12' \| $188 \| $89 \| $119 \| $129 \| $515 \|
	+	\| 16' \| $159 \| $50 \| $119 \| $139 \| $467 \|
	+
	+	Questions:
	+	* confirm pricing of above
	+	* 4th month rates?
	+	* pro-rated terms for partial 4th month?
	+	* how many parking spaces does a 16' unit take up? (may be more hassle in Sept.)
	+
	+	===== Pack Rat =====
	+	* 630-783-4049
	+	* 4 car lengths required - 2 hrs drop/unload/remove window
	+	* no additional fees for storage
	+
	+	* drop off & storage for 1st month = $199
	+	* additional months = $109/mo
	+	* Sept. delivery = $90
	+	* Total for 3 months = $507
	+
	+	w/coupon ($1 rent (MM01) and $25 off deliver (MM25))
	+	* drop off & storage for 1st month = $109
	+	* additional months = $109/mo (2x)
	+	* Sept. delivery = $90
	+	* Total for 3 month = $417
	+
	+	Questions:
	+	* 3 month commitment total or in addition to 1st month?
	+	* sales tax on everything?
	+	* pro-rated terms for partial 4th month?
	+	* window between drop off on site to delivery to storage center? (initial and Sept. delivery)
	+
	+
	+	===== ABF U-Pack ReloCube =====
	+	* http://www.upack.com/moving-services
	+	* container 6' x 7' x 8' = 336 cu ft
	+	* drop off and pick up for both ends:
	+	* 1 cube - $480
	+	* 2 cubes - $540
	+	* + storage at $95 per cube, per 30 days (NOT pro-rated)
	+	* reference number: FM21141329-A
	+
	+	Questions:
	+	* confirm 1st 30 days included?
	+

supenotes

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 03:54:17 +0000

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	+
	+	Noble Rot - SE Ankeny @ SE 28th Ave.
	+	*great environment, not pretentious, food is small portions, excellent, but spendy - jvv
	+	*Liked the local art inside. Food was good, wine was fun, too small inside for me. -Lo
	+	*Lovely place, great wine selection, tapas like meals very tasty, a little expensive. -LJS
	+
	+	\\
	+	Brasserie Montmartre - SW 6 @ Park (near Morrison)
	+	*minimal vegetarian selections, good drinks, nice atmosphere, but over priced - jvv
	+	*I had Escargot for the first time Ever! Always good food & service- and you can color. -Lo
	+	*Always a wonderful place, good live jazz, quality food, great bar. -LJS
	+	*A wonderful intro to Supe club. I enjoyed the champagne and doodling on the table with canyons. -EJ
	+
	+	+
	+	Aura - 11th @ W. Burnside
	+	*modern, stylish, good drinks, brilliant - jvv
	+	*Kind of Clubby and a Bit of a meat market, Fun, Dark, Great Drink Selection. -Lo
	+	*As hip and stylish as them come, a little loud on weekends, good food, great drinks, cool bathrooms. -LJS
	+
	+	\\
	+	Bull Ring NW - NW 27th near Vaughn
	+	*good value Mexican food but nothing exceptional - jvv
	+	*Good Sangria!!! Reminded me of a Classroom on Mexico-Month at school. -Lo
	+	*Middle of the road food, tacky, good drinks, decent value. -LJS
	+	*The atmosphere and service left a little to be desired...and the margaritas were tasty, but expensive. Overall, I enjoyed the authenticity of the food and the warm evening's conversation, however, the NW still lacks a really great Mexican restaurant. -EJ
	+
	+	\\
	+	Lauro Kitchen - 33rd & SE Division
	+	*excellent combination of environment, taste, value, and style; crowded even on a Tues. - jvv
	+	Awesome! My Favorite So Far, I enjoyed the wine, the food, the atmosphere, the service, the great coffee afterward & it was not Giantly expensive! The Walnut Garlic Sauce they put over their Salmon was Absolutely* Brilliant! (I Have Tried Duplicating it but have fallen miserably Short) -Lo
	+	*A artistic new space with an impressive mix of eclectic entrees. The pinky drink I had was perfect and I was impressed with the "team work" approach to service. The energy was great for a random Tuesday and helped me to discover a new passion for port. -EJ
	+	*Fantasic resturante, wonderfull food. All around fun.-LJS
	+
	+	\\
	+	Nuestra Cocina - 21st & SE Division
	+	*pleasant atmosphere, good food & drinks, limited veggie selections; service started good, then fell apart - jvv
	+	BEST Mojito's EVER* I like the Stainless steal open kitchen, The food was very traditional and good, the Service was snail paced. -Lo
	+	*Those were awesome minty Mojitos! The first was as good as the thrid. :> I'd have to say they really made the experience. There was a slight decline in service from beginning to end, however, it allowed for more talk time. -EJ
	+	*Best Spanish/Mexican food in Portland. An absolutly wonderfull place with a GREAT bar. -LJS
	+
	+	\\
	+	Ristorante Fratelli - 1230 NW Hoyt - $202 for 5
	+	*great atmosphere, good house cosmo, good entrees and appetizers - jvv
	+	The Food was better to read off the menu then actually eat. Over priced. The restaurant had a sexy-red-wine feel. Their after-dinner iced coffee drink served in a martini glass was Brilliant* - Lo
	+	*A+ for the romantic atmosphere! I loved the taper candles on the solid wood tables. It was also nice to have space around us to enjoy our meal. The sparkling red wine added some excitement to a relatively bland "pasta of the day". I want to go back for the chicken wrapped in proscuitto. -EJ
	+	*Romantic atmosphere, food was lacking and over priced. A good place for a nice glass of wine and appetizer. -LJS
	+
	+	\\
	+	E-San Thai - 2764 NW Thurnam - $112 for 6
	+	*nice space if a bit noisy; yummy food, spicy! - jvv
	+	*Friendly staff, decent wine selection, Always Great Thai Food. No Liquor, (yet) I like the one downtown better. - Lo
	+	*Spicy conversation and flavorful food made for an enjoyable evening. The space is quite intimate, however, it seems to work for the neighborhood crowd. I agree that the downtown location is better. -EJ
	+	*As always excelent thai food. Spicy to the extreme but yummy. -LJS
	+
	+	\\
	+	Vincente's Pizza - 1935 SE Hawthorne - $72 for 6
	+	*best pizza in Portland; perfect crust from wood fired oven; both veggie pizzas were great; good salads; no liquor - jvv
	+	* Great Pizza, My favorite was the BBQ Chicken.. Mmmmm Sweet Tangie, Grreat! The New add on, the three drunken Frogs.. or The Drunken Frog, or The Dancing Frog.. Very Nice Atmosphere, Good Space, very comfortable. - Lo
	+
	+	\\
	+	Assaggio - 7742 SE 13th Avenue - $311 for 7
	+	*Good food, Good Wine, Good Atmosphere, Good Friends...... Good Times -Lo
	+	*excellent atmosphere, food, and company - wonderful way to spend a birthday with good friends. - jvv
	+
	+	\\
	+	Imbibe - 2229 SE Hawthoren - $96 for 6 (no appetizers or dessert, minimal drinks)
	+	*Absolutley Love the Space, Comfortable, fun, great drinks, impressive bar, Good food, Will definatly go again. - Lo
	+	nice environment, eclectic selection of food, saltiest french fries ever* - jvv
	+
	+	\\
	+	Caro Amico Italian Cafe - 3606 SW Barbur Blvd. - $135 for 5 (no Appetizers Or Dessert)
	+	*The level of Difficulty in actually getting to this eating establishment makes it almost not worth going. My advice if you are going to Caro Amico Italian Cafe drive a truck or a car with a high suspension to hop the three medians that force you through a luge of Side Streets and back allys before you can get to the parking lot. That aside my meal was fabulous. I had the Chefs special, Scallops, Shrimp, Chantrelles, in a penna Pasta in a garlic butter and herb sauce.. mmmmmmm.. Good! Actual restaurant was run down, I think they were going for an upscale restaurant in a rundown building feel. I don't think they achieved their goal... (if that WAS their goal). -Lo
	+	food was good, but not particularly notable; bread was below average; interesting setting, not that* hard to get to - jvv
	+	*Yes it was! - Lo
	+	*with a bit of judicious map reading and a general sense of direction, it's not so bad to get there. :-) - jvv
	+	*Some of us Don't ride brooms. -Lo
	+	*huh? - jvv
	+
	+
	+	\\
	+	Misohapi - 1123 NW 23rd Ave - $63 for 6, no dessert
	+	*Miso is great everytime I go. I was impressed with their speedeness! Very fast and polite service. SPICY! Very tasty! Great lamps and wall hangings. -Lo
	+	*big menu w/Japanese and Thai dishes, fastest food delivery ever, tasty and affordable - wine, beer and sake - jvv
	+
	+
	+	\\
	+	PF Chang's China Bistro - 1139 NW Couch Street - $86 for 6, 3 appetizers no dessert, 2 drinks
	+	Cool atmosphere, fun good food, really liked the dumplings in the beginning, informative wait staff. OUTSTANDING PRICE!* - will definatly return - Lo
	+	*A fine Chinese resturante. As close to authentic as Portland could get. Really enjoyed my meal. Great price on Saki! - ljs
	+	*nice atmosphere for a chain, food was good but not exceptional but was an outstanding value for the money; surprisingly affordable - jvv
	+
	+	\\
	+	Le Happy - 1139 NW Couch Street - $104 for 4, 2 crepes + 2 drinks ea.
	+	*nice funky atmosphere, yummy food but a bit expensive to fill up on, very good drinks
	+
	+	\\
	+	Portofino - 8075 SE 13th Avenue - $36 for 2, Just Dinner, No Drinks.
	+	*Had it just been the food, and nothing else. It would have been Great. The decor Was an interesting mix of Cheesie Italian and Easter Island. The art was a mix of stuff you would find in the den of your great Aunt hilda's Farm house, Coupled with really awesome pictures of Italian Coastal Towns. The Proprietor, Kokoma Ika, (Easter Island Native, or so he Claims) was funny, Cute and sexie, worldly, Warm and Friendly! He was very knowledgeable about the community around him, and went out of his way to make us feel happy, welcomed and at home. We loved him. He was the key that tied that entire night into an exceptional expierence.
	+	*Nice mixed atmosphere in an eclectic little space off 13th; very friendly proprietor, excellent food and overall a really nice, well-rounded dinning experience. - jvv
	+
	+	\\
	+	----
	+
	+	Future visits:
	+
	+	Equinox - 830 N Shaver - Phone: (503) 460-3333
	+
	+	Mama Mia's Trattoria - 439 SW 2nd Ave - Phone: (503) 295-6464
	+
	+	----
	+	Portland Monthly Top Restaurants:
	+
	+	* Mediterranean - Lauro Kitchen 3377 SE Division
	+	* Japanese - Murata and Sin Ju 200 SW Market & 1022 NW Johnson
	+	* Breakfast - Mothers and Heathman 409 SW 2nd & 1001 SW Broadway
	+	* Indian - Bombay Cricket Club - 1925 SE Hawthorne
	+	* Pacific Northwest - Wildwood 2221 NW 21st Ave,
	+	* French - Carafe 200 SW Market
	+	* Latin American - Taqueria Nueve (Mexican), Pabiche (Cuban), Oba! (Brazilian) & Andina (Peruvian) South East Asian - Typhoon (Thia), Sungari Pearl (Chinese) & Pho Van (Vietnamese)
	+	* Italian - Genoa 2832 SE Belmont
	+	* Cajun - Acadia 1303 NE Fremont
	+	* Continental - Heathman
	+	* Service & Ambience - Paleys Place 1204 NW 21st Ave.
	+	* Most Innovative Chefs - Greg Higgins (Higgins) & Vitaly Paley (Paley's Place)
	+	* Chefs to Watch - Matt Johnson and Adam Berger ( Tabla), Tom Hurley (Hurley's), Scott Dolich (Park Kitchen) & Michael Clancy (Giorgio's)
	+

tmobile

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 03:54:18 +0000

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	+	====== Misc Wireless ======
	+	* http://wiki.howardforums.com/index.php/T-Mobile_Messaging
	+	* http://wiki.howardforums.com/index.php/Access_My_Email
	+	* http://www.gruups.com/tzones/
	+	* ID frequency in use by carrier at specific location - http://www.wirelessadvisor.com/
	+
	+	====== Signal Boosting ======
	+	* http://www.solidsignal.com/prod_display.asp?prod=YX510-PCS/CEL&main_cat=07

tv

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 03:54:19 +0000

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	+	see also [[home:cabling]]
	+
	+	====== ATSC HD ======
	+	* OTA FAQ - http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=611957
	+	* SAMSUNG SIR-TS360
	+	* Samsung HD Digital TV tuner SIR-T451
	+	* Samsung DTB-H260F
	+
	+	====== ATSC + DVR ======
	+	* Philips DVDR3576H DVD Recorder with 160GB Hard Disc and Built-In Tuner
	+	* http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=940657
	+	* http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showpost.php?p=14564338&postcount=1570
	+	* http://tinyurl.com/bau5mu
	+	* Magnavox H2160MW9
	+	* does NOT display OSD via non-HDMI outputs(?)
	+
	+	====== DTV Converters ======
	+	* Zenith DTT901
	+
	+	====== Antennas & Channels ======
	+	* http://www.fcc.gov/mb/engineering/maps/
	+	* http://www.antennaweb.org
	+	* http://tvfool.com
	+	* Antennas Direct DB2
	+	* Eagle Aspen Dtv2Buhf
	+	* http://www.tvtower.com/hdtv_antenna_and_reception.html
	+
	+	===== Portland =====
	+	* http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=168423
	+	* Portland - 252/256 degrees mag, yellow (sm. multi-directional)
	+
	+	===== Chicago Specific =====
	+	* Chicago - 78, blue (med. directional w/pre-amp) UHF + CBS(3), ABC(7)
	+
	+	===== Detroit =====
	+	* http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=453486
	+	* sm. multi-directional
	+
	+	===== Channel 1 =====
	+	* history: {{:channel1.pdf\|}}

ulrichenglhart

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 03:54:20 +0000

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	+
	+	====== Ulrich Englhart ======
	+
	+	[[travel:englishslang]]
	+
	+	[[travel:scandinavianslang]]
	+
	+
	+	======= German movies I recommend: =======
	+
	+	*Tattoo
	+	*Ausgerechnet Zoe
	+	*Knocking on heavenÂ´s door
	+	*Das Experiment
	+	*Das Boot
	+	*Stalingrad
	+
	+
	+
	+
	+
	+	----
	+
	+

vwnotes

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 03:54:21 +0000

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	+	====== Filters & Supplies ======
	+	* http://www.germanfilters.com/jetta-tdi-c-1314_1846_3416.html

warmongerexplainswartoapeacenik

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 03:54:22 +0000

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	+	A Warmonger Explains War To a Peacenik By Anonymous
	+
	+	Peace Nik: Why did you say we are we invading Iraq?
	+
	+	War Monger: We are invading Iraq because it is in violation of security council resolution 1441. A country cannot be allowed to violate security council resolutions.
	+
	+	PN: But I thought many of our allies, including Israel, were in violation of more security council resolutions than Iraq.
	+
	+	WM: It's not just about UN resolutions. The main point is that Iraq could have weapons of mass destruction, and the first sign of a smoking gun could well be a mushroom cloud over NY.
	+
	+	PN: Mushroom cloud? But I thought the weapons inspectors said Iraq had no nuclear weapons.
	+
	+	WM: Yes, but biological and chemical weapons are the issue.
	+
	+	PN: But I thought Iraq did not have any long range missiles for attacking us or our allies with such weapons.
	+
	+	WM: The risk is not Iraq directly attacking us, but rather terrorists networks that Iraq could sell the weapons to.
	+
	+	PN: But coundn't virtually any country sell chemical or biological materials? We sold quite a bit to Iraq in the eighties ourselves, didn't we?
	+
	+	WM: That's ancient history. Look, Saddam Hussein is an evil man that has an undeniable track record of repressing his own people since the early eighties. He gasses his enemies. Everyone agrees that he is a power-hungry lunatic murderer.
	+
	+	PN: We sold chemical and biological materials to a power-hungry lunatic murderer?
	+
	+	WM: The issue is not what we sold, but rather what Saddam did. He is the one that launched a pre-emptive first strike on Kuwait.
	+
	+	PN: A pre-emptive first strike does sound bad. But didn't our ambassador to Iraq, April Gillespie, know about and green-light the invasion of Kuwait?
	+
	+	WM: Let's deal with the present, shall we? As of today, Iraq could sell its biological and chemical weapons to Al Quaida. Osama Bin Laden himself released an audio tape calling on Iraqis to suicide-attack us, proving a partnership between the two.
	+
	+	PN: Osama Bin Laden? Wasn't the point of invading Afghanistan to kill him?
	+
	+	WM: Actually, it's not 100% certain that it's really Osama Bin Laden on the tapes. But the lesson from the tape is the same, there could easily be a partnership between al-Qaida and Saddam Hussein unless we act.
	+
	+	PN: Is this the same audio tape where Osama Bin Laden labels Saddam a secular infidel?
	+
	+	WM: You're missing the point by just focusing on the tape. Powell presented a strong case against Iraq.
	+
	+	PN: He did?
	+
	+	WM: Yes, he showed satellite pictures of an Al Quaeda poison factory in Iraq.
	+
	+	PN: But didn't that turn out to be a harmless shack in the part of Iraq controlled by the Kurdish opposition?
	+
	+	WM: And a British intelligence report...
	+
	+	PN: Didn't that turn out to be copied from an out-of-date graduate student paper?
	+
	+	WM: And reports of mobile weapons labs...
	+
	+	PN: Weren't those just artistic renderings?
	+
	+	WM: And reports of Iraqis scuttling and hiding evidence from inspectors...
	+
	+	PN: Wasn't that evidence contradicted by the chief weapons inspector, Hans Blix?
	+
	+	WM: Yes, but there is plenty of other hard evidence that cannot be revealed because it would compromise our security.
	+
	+	PN: So there is no publicly available evidence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq?
	+
	+	WM: The inspectors are not detectives, it's not their JOB to find evidence. You're missing the point.
	+
	+	PN: So what is the point?
	+
	+	WM: The main point is that we are invading Iraq because resolution 1441 threatened "severe consequences." If we do not act, the security council will become an irrelevant debating society.
	+
	+	PN: So the main point is to uphold the rulings of the security council?
	+
	+	WM: Absolutely. ...unless it rules against us.
	+
	+	PN: And what if it does rule against us?
	+
	+	WM: In that case, we must lead a coalition of the willing to invade Iraq.
	+
	+	PN: Coalition of the willing? Who's that?
	+
	+	WM: Britain, Turkey, Bulgaria, Spain, and Italy, for starters.
	+
	+	PN: I thought Turkey refused to help us unless we gave them tens of billions of dollars.
	+
	+	WM: Nevertheless, they may now be willing.
	+
	+	PN: I thought public opinion in all those countries was against war.
	+
	+	WM: Current public opinion is irrelevant. The majority expresses its will by electing leaders to make decisions.
	+
	+	PN: So it's the decisions of leaders elected by the majority that is important?
	+
	+	WM: Yes.
	+
	+	PN: But George Bush wasn't elected by voters. He was selected by the U.S. Supreme C...-
	+
	+	WM: I mean, we must support the decisions of our leaders, however they were elected, because they are acting in our best interest. This is about being a patriot. That's the bottom line.
	+
	+	PN: So if we do not support the decisions of the president, we are not patriotic?
	+
	+	WM: I never said that.
	+
	+	PN: So what are you saying? Why are we invading Iraq?
	+
	+	WM: As I said, because there is a chance that they have weapons of mass destruction that threaten us and our allies.
	+
	+	PN: But the inspectors have not been able to find any such weapons.
	+
	+	WM: Iraq is obviously hiding them.
	+
	+	PN: You know this? How?
	+
	+	WM: Because we know they had the weapons ten years ago, and they are still unaccounted for.
	+
	+	PN: The weapons we sold them, you mean?
	+
	+	WM: Precisely.
	+
	+	PN: But I thought those biological and chemical weapons would degrade to an unusable state over ten years.
	+
	+	WM: But there is a chance that some have not degraded.
	+
	+	PN: So as long as there is even a small chance that such weapons exist, we must invade?
	+
	+	WM: Exactly.
	+
	+	PN: But North Korea actually has large amounts of usable chemical, biological, AND nuclear weapons, AND long range missiles that can reach the west coast AND it has expelled nuclear weapons inspectors, AND threatened to turn America into a sea of fire.
	+
	+	WM: That's a diplomatic issue.
	+
	+	PN: So why are we invading Iraq instead of using diplomacy?
	+
	+	WM: Aren't you listening? We are invading Iraq because we cannot allow the inspections to drag on indefinitely. Iraq has been delaying, deceiving, and denying for over ten years, and inspections cost us tens of millions.
	+
	+	PN: But I thought war would cost us tens of billions.
	+
	+	WM: Yes, but this is not about money. This is about security.
	+
	+	PN: But wouldn't a pre-emptive war against Iraq ignite radical Muslim sentiments against us, and decrease our security?
	+
	+	WM: Possibly, but we must not allow the terrorists to change the way we live. Once we do that, the terrorists have already won.
	+
	+	PN: So what is the purpose of the Department of Homeland Security, color-coded terror alerts, and the Patriot Act? Don't these change the way we live?
	+
	+	WM: I thought you had questions about Iraq.
	+
	+	PN: I do. Why are we invading Iraq?
	+
	+	WM: For the last time, we are invading Iraq because the world has called on Saddam Hussein to disarm, and he has failed to do so. He must now face the consequences.
	+
	+	PN: So, likewise, if the world called on us to do something, such as find a peaceful solution, we would have an obligation to listen?
	+
	+	WM: By "world", I meant the United Nations.
	+
	+	PN: So, we have an obligation to listen to the United Nations?
	+
	+	WM: By "United Nations" I meant the Security Council.
	+
	+	PN: So, we have an obligation to listen to the Security Council?
	+
	+	WM: I meant the majority of the Security Council.
	+
	+	PN: So, we have an obligation to listen to the majority of the Security Council?
	+
	+	WM: Well... there could be an unreasonable veto.
	+
	+	PN: In which case?
	+
	+	WM: In which case, we have an obligation to ignore the veto.
	+
	+	PN: And if the majority of the Security Council does not support us at all?
	+
	+	WM: Then we have an obligation to ignore the Security Council.
	+
	+	PN: That makes no sense.
	+
	+	WM: If you love Iraq so much, you should move there. Or maybe France, with all the other cheese-eating surrender monkeys. It's time to boycott their wine and cheese, no doubt about that.
	+
	+	PN: I give up!
	+	----
	+
	+

woodfinishing

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	+	====== Wood Finishing ======
	+	\\
	+	===== Highland Hardware - Furniture Refinishing with wipe on varnish=====
	+	*Use Minwax polyshades finish
	+	*Thin with 25% mineral spirits
	+	*Wipe on a thin coat every 48 hours
	+	*After each coat sand with 800 grit
	+	*Wipe off dust
	+	*Continue until desired build up is achieved
	+	*All 3-4 days for final coat cure
	+	*Light sand with 800 grin in grain direction
	+	*Rub with 0000 steel wool
	+	*Apply wax in direction of grain