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Well, I have to give her credit. I didn't notice her having any problems. Actually, I was thinking the other way. The teleprompters are so far to the right and left that most speakers look pretty dorky reading at weird angles to the front camera. I have wondered why they put them so far away from the camera angle. I thought she was doing a fantastic job of addressing the audience. I guess she was....
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http://www.cybergrass.com//modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=5287
News: John McEuen Producing New Steve Martin AlbumMusic NewsBMNN wrote: on Sep. 04, 2008:
John McEuen is no stranger to acoustic and bluegrass music. He sent us a note about an exciting new project he's working on. Those who know John, know that he's always working on something! This summer John McEuen started producing an album for his lifelong friend, actor Steve Martin. Of Martin's all original music - for release in 2009, John says "the Steve album is coming along great! People will be shocked at how vast and varied is music is, and how hot he plays… this album will show Steve as a composer of unique hot and soulful music, and as a songwriter with an unusual twist for lyrics. And, in the 44 years I've known him, I've never heard him playing better."
Martin's yet to be titled album (a dozen instrumentals and three vocals) features such diverse talents as David Amram, Earl Scruggs, McEuen, Tony Trishka, Pete Wernick, Craig Eastman, Russ Barenburg, (Vince Gill and Tim O'Brien sing two songs, and Steve even sings one); it is hard to pigeonhole as to 'style'. "Trishka hit it out of the park on tunes he picked on.. and Wernick showed his restraint and taste and best tone.. they were invaluable in their contributions." John brings Americana folk traditional instruments to Steve's world of notes where you will hear strains that combine influences from their mutual past - Disneyland, Knott's Berry Farm, The Music Man, Aaron Copland's Appalachian Spring, and bluegrass - in way that “will take the music world by surpriseâ€, says producer McEuen.
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Or put a Dell OEM sticker on it...........
Boy, that's the truth!
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I'm willing to bet that when they see A. alaska's economy was better when she left it than when she found it, b. she DID shake up the state government, and C. she's an everyday American that takes advantage of the opportunities she's been given, then I don't think much of what he says will matter. after all..biden has MANY more skeletons in his closet..better to not throw rocks when you live in a glass house.
she'll have the advantage I think.
I hope you are right. But Alaska is Alaska. They have a reverse tax that actually pays you every year from oil money for being a resident. No other state does that. That's why one of my Army buddies kept his Alaska residency after leaving Anchorage. They have an automatic revenue stream that isn't tied to the economy, as in other states. No one is going to stop buying liquor or gasoline.
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There is a lot of technical talk going on about Chrome and spying on you.
Google Chrome and Privacy"One problem is that there is no way to disable JavaScript, or disable images.
Another is that there is no way to keep Chrome from grabbing the standard Google universal cookie, even if you never access a Google site. This is the cookie that expires two years after the last time you landed on some Google site (which means it expires two years after your hard disk is in the dumpster).
Unless you have your home page set to some site of your choosing, Chrome will phone home with a HEAD fetch to grab the standard Google cookie within about ten seconds after loading. If you have a home page set it doesn't do this until you put something into the address/search bar. Then it will phone home with a HEAD to grab a Google cookie, or read that cookie if you already have one. This happens even if you've changed your default search engine to a non-Google engine.
The cookie options are minimal. You can accept all, reject all, or do something mysterious in between that Google doesn't explain, and doesn't allow you to configure.
Try this: With your own home page set, now delete your cookies and exit Chrome. Next, reload Chrome and you won't get a cookie. Before you do anything else, get into the "incognito" window, which is supposed to dump all cookies upon exit. It works, except that Google's own cookie is exempt from this! Google will read its own cookie in incognito mode, or set its cookie if you don't have one, and it stays in Chrome even after you exit the incognito mode. In other words, Google exempts itself from its own privacy features.
You can change the default engine to anything you like, and Wireshark tests indicate that Google doesn't phone home your search terms using its cookie if you change the default engine. But they're ready to do this with a minor automatic update, and someday they will.
All this behavior is with phishing and malware protection disabled, and "show suggestions" disabled, and send usage statistics and crash reports disabled.
The GoogleUpdate.exe program is separate from Chrome, and it tries to access the Internet on every warm boot. Then it hangs around in the process table forever, even if you never load Chrome. Why is this necessary? What is it waiting for? Is it watching you? "
Can't Remove Chrome's Phone Home Features Not Removable?
"I removed Chrome using the add/remove option in Windows, but the GoogleUpdate.exe doesn't get removed. There is no obvious way to kill that, which continues to phone home to Google with a huge GET request that has your machine configuration and a unique user ID:
/service/check2?appid=%7B430FD4D0-B729-4F61-AA34-91526481799D%7D &appversion=1.2.131.11&applang=&machine=0&version=1.2.131.11 [COLOR="Red"]&machineid=%7B4F599683-B0DE-46F0-A73C-E8A4623C92BD%7D &userid=%7BAD99E17C-DE6C-4ED7-8FE7-4919642086C7%7D&[/COLOR] osversion=5.1 &servicepack=Service%20Pack%202 HTTP/1.1 User-Agent: Google Update/1.2.131.11;winhttp Host: cr-tools.clients.google.com Connection: Keep-Alive Cache-Control: no-cache Pragma: no-cache
Fortunately, I set a restore point before I installed Chrome, so I was able to revert to that restore point. Google's installation program doesn't set a restore point before it installs, unlike most responsible Windows packages.
I suspect this is all deliberate. When you uninstall Chrome, Google asks you why. I suspect that GoogleUpdate.exe, which sends off all that info on a warm boot and currently gets back empty content, can be set to show a nagging reminder that everything you didn't like about Chrome is all fixed now, and wouldn't you like to install it again?
No thanks."
I was able to easily kill GoogleUpdate.exe. Just disable it in your startup files and delete the entries in the scheduler. I had done this before when I reinstalled Google Earth. I also eliminated it from the process table using The Ultimate Troubleshooter. TUT is not free unless you steal it, but I highly recommend it, BTW.
I had my system set up with CCleaner to erase the Google.com cookie when I re-booted. But I added CookieSafe to Firefox to prevent Google from adding its cookie to my computer at all. It isn't needed to use the search engine and eliminates a source of spying. BTW, if you use CookieSafe, you will have to manually add Google.com to your "exceptions".
I'm afraid Chrome will be permanently crippled to prevent your ability to not be targeted for ads. The inability to kill Javascript or the Google cookies, even in incognito mode means that you will be tracked.
In short, it's pretty useless unless you want Big Brother looking over your shoulder. Back to Firefox.
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The more I get into the Bridge to Nowhere thing, the more interesting it becomes. While the bridge was to connect Ketchikan with the 50 people or so on Gravina Island, no one ever mentions that there is something else on that island - Ketchikan's airport. Isn't that "somewhere"?
Check http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/09/22/alaska.bridge.ap/
She was probably right that the bridge was too expensive, after the federal earmarks (our tax dollars) were pulled. Ferries still work and their upkeep is probably a lot less than the $398 million the bridge would have cost.
But Palin didn't say "thanks, but no thanks", to the bridge funding as she asserts. With exposure, Congress pulled the plug on any more earmarks for the project. The rest of the money would have come from state coffers and she wouldn't go along with that.
She flip-flopped on the project after additional federal funding was pulled. I see no evidence that she opposed earmarks, but just had a change in heart after it became politically advantageous.
I hope this choice for VP doesn't blow up on the Republicans.
Right now, we have the bridge thing, hiring lobbyists to get earmarks while mayor, the Highway Patrol brother-in law thing, threatening to fire the city librarian for not pulling "offensive" books, her wanting to teach Creation "Science" in schools, and I'm sure some more stuff I'm not recalling at the moment. I wonder what else they will dig up?
Of course the VP does pretty much nothing of importance, so who is chosen doesn't really matter except for hopefully getting some more votes. I just hope Palin continues as a positive influence in vote getting. But you can bet that Biden will use this against her in debates trying to portray her as a hypocritical religious zealot. I'm not sure that zingers will work there.
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They are also lined up out the door of the local market buying beer and cigarettes with that same card!
I doubt the church will buy them beer or smokes.
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Rudy gave an entertaining speech. I did notice when he was zinging Obama about the God and guns comment that Rudy mentioned people clinging to their God, but didn't mention guns.
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It was a fun speech, but there were far too many zingers and not a lot else.
She mentioned that "bridge to nowhere" thing again. I don't think I would do that. She stopped the project but kept the earmarked funds. That didn't help my tax burden.
http://www.reuters.com/article/vcCandidateFeed7/idUSN3125537020080901
Palin "bridge to nowhere" line angers many AlaskansMon Sep 1, 2008 10:44am EDT
By Yereth Rosen
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - It garnered big applause in her first speech as Republican John McCain's vice presidential pick, but Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's assertion that she rejected Congressional funds for the so-called "bridge to nowhere" has upset many Alaskans.
During her first speech after being named as McCain's surprise pick as a running mate, Palin said she had told Congress "'thanks but no thanks' on that bridge to nowhere."
In the city Ketchikan, the planned site of the so-called "Bridge to Nowhere," political leaders of both parties said the claim was false and a betrayal of their community, because she had supported the bridge and the earmark for it secured by Alaska's Congressional delegation during her run for governor.
The bridge, a span from the city to Gravina Island, home to only a few dozen people, secured a $223 million earmark in 2005. The pricey designation raised a furor and critics, including McCain, used the bridge as an example of wasteful federal spending on politicians' pet projects.
When she was running for governor in 2006, Palin said she was insulted by the term "bridge to nowhere," according to Ketchikan Mayor Bob Weinstein, a Democrat, and Mike Elerding, a Republican who was Palin's campaign coordinator in the southeast Alaska city.
"People are learning that she pandered to us by saying, I'm for this' ... and then when she found it was politically advantageous for her nationally, abruptly she starts using the very term that she said was insulting," Weinstein said.
Palin's spokeswoman in Alaska was not immediately available to comment.
National fury over the bridge caused Congress to remove the earmark designation, but Alaska was still granted an equivalent amount of transportation money to be used at its own discretion.
Last year, Palin announced she was stopping state work on the controversial project, earning her admirers from earmark critics and budget hawks from around the nation. The move also thrust her into the spotlight as a reform-minded newcomer.
The state, however, never gave back any of the money that was originally earmarked for the Gravina Island bridge, said Weinstein and Elerding.
In fact, the Palin administration has spent "tens of millions of dollars" in federal funds to start building a road on Gravina Island that is supposed to link up to the yet-to-be-built bridge, Weinstein said.
"She said 'thanks but no thanks,' but they kept the money," said Elerding about her applause line.
Former state House Speaker Gail Phillips, a Republican who represented the Kenai Peninsula city of Homer, is also critical about Palin's reversal on the bridge issue.
"You don't tell a group of Alaskans you support something and then go to someplace else and say you oppose it," said Phillips, who supported Palin's opponent, Democrat Tony Knowles, in the 2006 gubernatorial race.
A press release issued by the governor on September 21, 2007 said she decided to cancel state work on the project because of rising cost estimates.
"It's clear that Congress has little interest in spending any more money on a bridge between Ketchikan and Gravina Island," Palin said in the news release. "Much of the public's attitude toward Alaska bridges is based on inaccurate portrayals of the projects here."
She's going to have to do more than a comedy act and instead talk issues. I wasn't impressed.
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If it's well written Christian music and it does not talk about Jesus or being saved, then it might not be Christian music.?????
I said "of a religious nature" not of a Christian nature.
See my examples in post #1:
Ghost Riders in the Sky
Long Black Train
The Brothers Four : The Waves Roll In
Great moral and religious music without one word of Jesus or being saved.
Basically, all of the songs I listed are telling you to be a good person - or else.
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(2) On the person's own premises or premises under the person's control or who is the employee or agent of the owner of the premises with responsibility for protecting persons or property.
I'd say that the realistic definition of that phrase is that the business owner says it is OK to carry the gun.
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Sounds like CBL is doing everything wrong. Not adding enough real security to fix their crime problem and also insisting that people not be able to protect themselves.
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This what you are looking for? Took me two clicks to find it through Google Finance.
CBL & Associates Properties, Inc.
CBL Center, Suite 500
2030 Hamilton Place Boulevard
Chattanooga, TN 37421-6000
423.855.0001
800.333.7310
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Yeah, I saw that this morning. You still have to be an idiot and click on something you don't understand to infect your machine. Sounds like this should be easy to fix. And this is a beta.
I've already uninstalled Chrome. It doesn't have the features I want yet and may never have them.
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Actually, I have a similar problem. I have a laptop that has died. But I replaced the HD not too long ago and filled up the 60 gig drive (I think it is 60 Gig) with all sorts of stuff. Wouldn't mind giving it to someone, but not with recoverable data on it. I have the erasure disc, just no way to run it.
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...and when something gets messed up millions of users will be out of luck until it is fixed. And you will still have to pay for a license.
I'm trying SlimSearch. Looks like it might be handy.
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Then again - Jesus is perfect so the gun only fires when he wants and where he wants.
That's because he uses a H&K.
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I gave it a try, but I can't live without adblock plus.
And NoScript, and PDF Download, and AI Roboform.
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And see!!!!! Jesus keeps his finger on the trigger.
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Those Hogue sleeves do add size to the grip and sometimes make it harder (and thus slower) to draw the gun.
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The Incognito mode is nice, but there are plenty of sandbox applications out there. I didn't care for Sandboxie though and I'm just guessing that Chrome did what it says it will do.
Chrome is a bit faster than Firefox 3.1beta and significantly faster than FF 3.0. But the difference isn't really huge, as it is with IE7. See http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10009139o-2000331777b,00.htm.
I miss the ad killing add-ons in FF. I doubt they will ever show up on an approved list of Chrome add-ons.
There are some good features here. Maybe FF will add them in a version down the line.
For now, I've tested enough and it's back to FF.
BTW, if you want the standalone Google Chrome setup, it can be downloaded at http://gpdl.google.com/chrome/install/149.27/chrome_installer.exe rather than having to install while online.
BTW #2: Chrome installs a Google updater task in Scheduled Tasks that will check every 10 minutes when your computer is idle. I killed that.
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It really depends on how sensitive the info on the drive is. If it's still workable and installed, you need a bootable eraser disk. The ones you run under Windows will not fully work. But they will probably keep spouses and local cops away from the data.
If it's out of the computer, I'd drill some holes through it, disassemble it, and scatter the parts in woods in three states.
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Or you could have bought a USP that pretty much has the roughestrashiest grip than any manufacturer out there.
And they don't get slippery just as they come from the factory.
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If you think I'm going to watch another P. Diddy video, you are crazier than he is.
Sarah Palin speech at RNC
in 2A Legislation and Politics
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No offense, but....
McCain could be stronger (a lot stronger like Dubya could be) on 2A, but I actually like him. Have for years. I get a little sick of the McCain bashing because he has some sense instead of being like some sort of mindless right-wing religion nut job and he has actually been there and understands America.
He and I disagree on some issues, but he has some sense, unlike most of the other Republican contenders for the Presidential position. Frankly, I wouldn't vote for Palin for President right now. She's comes across as too much of a religious fruitcake, at least as she portrays herself. I'm not sure that is an honest portrayal, but that is what she says.
McCain is a good man in of himself. Patriot, hero, sensible man. I'm tired of hearing how he is somehow not worthy because he isn't a zealot.