And the second week of stuff begins.
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silveradeptCarpet cleaning is tomorrow, not today. At the desk all by myself today, so any screw-ups are mine and mine alone. Called/Will call appropriate places today to set up new utilities, and luxury services such as cable television and internet service. Sunday looks to be the only day I can make it work and actually be there. So, computer access at work only for the next week or so. Meh. Have taken care of last bill of old utilities, am wondering whether my mail forwarding is working at all, because of the way things are going. Am really wishing for a paycheck, but won't get one until two weeks yet, so I'm hoping that the people back home simply smile when bills come in. Oy. It's expensive to set yourself up, and this is without any of the stuff I left behind.
Anyway, onward to more interesting things. Like a very good reason why you should all friend![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
greyweirdo - The Sesame Street Mafia.
If fracturing the thigns that many people hold dear isn't your thing, then maybe some things you might not want to purchase at the local dollar store.
Or the bigger picture on things -bradhicks asks how many more lives will be sacrificed before someone decides that it's best not to stay involved in Iraq. This coming close to the advent of the report made by the General, of which it appears there will be no hard copy written and disseminated, instead, a report will be written by the White House and then the general will read it and explain it. The public will not know what data, if any, comes from the General's assessment and what has been added or changed by any of the writers. For those seeking hard numbers and a chance to interpret the materials for themselves, they will be sadly disappointed. Numbers that are available, however, are things like Syria's restrictions on accepting Iraqi refugees. Isn't that a funny thing to see, where Syria's been taking on many, while the United States, with a statue proclaiming its willingness to take on everyone who wants to arrive, seems to be dragging its feet pretty hard on taking anyone.
Of course, all of this is done in the name of protecting people from terrorism. I'm prety sure, though, that this is statistically speaking, something we should not worry about at all. Of course, we can and should worry about all the other thigns that are being done to protect us that also conveniently take away cherished freedoms.
Other possible political machinations include the strange case of a Decmocratic Alabama governor being imprisoned, possibly because he was seen as a political threat. There's probably a lot of dirty laundry at the Justice Department that need airing. I do wonder what sort of skeletons will come out of the closet on all these administrations when things like the statute of limitations on some of them have passed, and others when they finally get declassified. Althoguh accidentally, we may have an answer to how people voted in the last election. Utilizing two different lists on the public record, it may be possible to match voter to vote. Which screws over entirely the idea of the secret ballot, in the nam of making sure that votes are beign counted and catalogued accurately. D'oh!
Green cars are available for sale. Just not where you are, most likely. In fact, some environmental regulations may be preventing you from buying a greener, cleaner, although not necessarily any more fuel-efficient car.
Finally, frombladespark, a useful way of reframing the idea of men versus women. Namely, that it's not men versus women at all, and that the oppressive overarching Patriarchy may very well be a myth (not to say that there aren't people who do believe that women are somehow less than men). Roy F. Baumeister posits in Is There Anything Good About Men? that culture and evolutionary strategy has produced the "gender gap", with very good reasons - women prefer intimate relationships, men prefer broad and shallow networks. Combined with the idea that at any given time, there is an excess of males in the populace, high-risk, high-reward behavior tends to be the way that men distinguish themselves and pass on their genes. Well, the successful risk-takers, anyway - the unsuccessful ones tend to be dead or die out childless. Sounds like Monica Piper was right - "A man on a date wonders if he'll get lucky. The woman already knows." And that might extend all the way up and down our culture.
Anyway, onward to more interesting things. Like a very good reason why you should all friend
greyweirdo - The Sesame Street Mafia.If fracturing the thigns that many people hold dear isn't your thing, then maybe some things you might not want to purchase at the local dollar store.
Or the bigger picture on things -
bradhicks asks how many more lives will be sacrificed before someone decides that it's best not to stay involved in Iraq. This coming close to the advent of the report made by the General, of which it appears there will be no hard copy written and disseminated, instead, a report will be written by the White House and then the general will read it and explain it. The public will not know what data, if any, comes from the General's assessment and what has been added or changed by any of the writers. For those seeking hard numbers and a chance to interpret the materials for themselves, they will be sadly disappointed. Numbers that are available, however, are things like Syria's restrictions on accepting Iraqi refugees. Isn't that a funny thing to see, where Syria's been taking on many, while the United States, with a statue proclaiming its willingness to take on everyone who wants to arrive, seems to be dragging its feet pretty hard on taking anyone.Of course, all of this is done in the name of protecting people from terrorism. I'm prety sure, though, that this is statistically speaking, something we should not worry about at all. Of course, we can and should worry about all the other thigns that are being done to protect us that also conveniently take away cherished freedoms.
Other possible political machinations include the strange case of a Decmocratic Alabama governor being imprisoned, possibly because he was seen as a political threat. There's probably a lot of dirty laundry at the Justice Department that need airing. I do wonder what sort of skeletons will come out of the closet on all these administrations when things like the statute of limitations on some of them have passed, and others when they finally get declassified. Althoguh accidentally, we may have an answer to how people voted in the last election. Utilizing two different lists on the public record, it may be possible to match voter to vote. Which screws over entirely the idea of the secret ballot, in the nam of making sure that votes are beign counted and catalogued accurately. D'oh!
Green cars are available for sale. Just not where you are, most likely. In fact, some environmental regulations may be preventing you from buying a greener, cleaner, although not necessarily any more fuel-efficient car.
Finally, from
bladespark, a useful way of reframing the idea of men versus women. Namely, that it's not men versus women at all, and that the oppressive overarching Patriarchy may very well be a myth (not to say that there aren't people who do believe that women are somehow less than men). Roy F. Baumeister posits in Is There Anything Good About Men? that culture and evolutionary strategy has produced the "gender gap", with very good reasons - women prefer intimate relationships, men prefer broad and shallow networks. Combined with the idea that at any given time, there is an excess of males in the populace, high-risk, high-reward behavior tends to be the way that men distinguish themselves and pass on their genes. Well, the successful risk-takers, anyway - the unsuccessful ones tend to be dead or die out childless. Sounds like Monica Piper was right - "A man on a date wonders if he'll get lucky. The woman already knows." And that might extend all the way up and down our culture.
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Date: 2007-09-10 08:35 pm (UTC)Wow, that'll almost make it a month without regular access for you.
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Date: 2007-09-10 09:00 pm (UTC)let's try that with proper english....
Date: 2007-09-10 09:04 pm (UTC)I wonder if you could pick up the box at their office? Then if things didn't work, they could still come on Sunday, but if you can make it work on your own, you'd have it sooner.
Re: let's try that with proper english....
Date: 2007-09-10 10:48 pm (UTC)And as for picking it up, I don't think they'd be willing to let me, plus there's probably some strange and silly thing they have to do to get it all authorized.
Re: let's try that with proper english....
Date: 2007-09-10 10:50 pm (UTC)oddly enough, I *still* have analog cable. Then again, it also took FIVE YEARS to get cable internet, so really, I'm not holding my breath. I guess we have digital cable in the area, but they haven't upgraded the plain old analog lines yet.
Probably. But they do know that you have a modem, right?
Re: let's try that with proper english....
Date: 2007-09-11 03:57 pm (UTC)Re: let's try that with proper english....
Date: 2007-09-11 08:37 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-09-11 04:42 am (UTC)Brad Hicks? Who is he and what gives him the right (academically speaking; I'm not talking free speech) to criticize the war the way he does? Is he just another yahoo like when Carl Sagan decided to tell the world there is no God because he is an expert at looking at stars? Sorry, wrong subject for joo, Carl! What are Hicks' credentials, other than being a jaded American with a digital soap box?
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Date: 2007-09-11 04:01 pm (UTC)As for Mr. Hicks's credentials, you'd probably have to ask him yourself what he has. It may not be much or anything at all, but unlike lots of persons who use their digital soapbox, such as myself, his analysis is generally backed with verifiable material, sources, and statistics, hyperlinked if available. And his commenters can and do take issue with his conclusions and statistics.