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CompUSA.com - Targus Wireless Mini Mouse $9.99 After Rebate. CompUSA has the Targus Wireless Mini Mouse (Ball) (search for 293315) selling for $19.99 with a $10 rebate (exp. 11/24/03) making your cost $9.99. Add $5 for shipping.
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Meh. the last few weeks have taken their toll....
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Poor Michael. Remember back in the 80s when everyone made fun of him for all the plastic surgery, for wanting...
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| 22:48:48 November 22, 2003, Saturday (PST) |
Source: Dumb Celebs |
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Just a reminder that November 19th, 2003 is Savion Glover's 30th birthday! Just wanted to recognize a fellow Scorpio who deserves to be recognized.
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(More On Campaign Finance. I lifted out a couple of comments. One point on this particular idea. I do not restrict in any way the amount of money that can be spent. I only restrict what can be ...)
More On Campaign Finance. I lifted out a couple of comments. One point on this particular idea. I do not restrict in any way the amount of money that can be spent. I only restrict what can be spent in this one particular medium. I believe that effectively solves the problem. Since there are plenty of ways that views can be expressed, I think it passes constitutional muster. Or I think that it should. Ross Judson for President!? TimCan 11/17/03; 8:17:32 AM: Sorry to disappoint, but I am Canadian, dammit! I can't see how you could make such a law pass constitutional muster. Nor can I see how this would address 3rd parties (PACs) from running their own ads (and I see this becoming a progressively bigger problem in response to even pathetic attempts at campaign finance reform) Mark Denovich 11/19/03; 8:30:57 AM I agree that this would be the best way of dealing with finance reform: to control how money is spent. Unfortunately, the prevailing atmosphere is working against any sort ...
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(The Truth About Private Medicine Matthew Yglesias gives a tight summarization of some basic facts about medical care and costs. Note the conclusions: Government health care is cheaper than private ...)
The Truth About Private Medicine Matthew Yglesias gives a tight summarization of some basic facts about medical care and costs. Note the conclusions: Government health care is cheaper than private health care, and delivers better service. It's pretty easy to see why this is so. The cash flow in the medical system goes something like this: Government pays doctors. Patients pay co-pays to doctors, and insurance premiums to insurance companies. Insurance companies pay (sometimes) doctors absurdly low amounts for services. Doctors pay massive amounts for malpractice to insurance companies. Insurance companies pay out roughly 25% of that in claims. So, while bitching endlessly about the spiralling costs of medical care (which they pass on to patients, resulting in the world's most expensive health care system), insurance companies are quietly pocketing a big chunk of the money on the back end. US health spending per capita is $4287. Canadian spending is $2433. Using lifespan as a ...
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(Matthew Yglesias: Libertarians for Single-Payer Lite Thought-provoking commentary from Matthew. Here's my take: 1. Catastrophic insurance universally. Paid for out of the general government fund. ...)
Matthew Yglesias: Libertarians for Single-Payer Lite Thought-provoking commentary from Matthew. Here's my take: 1. Catastrophic insurance universally. Paid for out of the general government fund. 2. To encourage preventative care, qualifying preventative visits would be pair for, on a sliding scale, based on income, on a fixed government price scale. So if you're real poor, you can get preventative care that will save the government money on the catastrophic stuff. 3. Likewise, a sliding scale for a drug plan. 4. Late-life health care costs are accrued against a senior's estate. The government can step in and take back a percentage of the health care cost. How's that for evil? ;) 5. Generic, across-the-board exemptions for all doctors from any form of medical malpractice suit. The appropriate mechanism for these complaints is the revocation of license, not the payment of damages. We can sweep the whole stupid problem away if we do this.
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(Mr. Lileks Learns About Ingratitude OTB summarizes reactions to Lileks' post about Salaam Pax...no sir, Lileks doesn't like him. Lileks requires abasement from those he has helped, ...)
Mr. Lileks Learns About Ingratitude OTB summarizes reactions to Lileks' post about Salaam Pax...no sir, Lileks doesn't like him. Lileks requires abasement from those he has helped, apparently...and is unable to see the irony in the righteous anger derived from reading about the deaths of _three_ of his fellow Minnesotans, who gave their _lives_ helping people who've suffered the deaths of hundreds of thousands of their citizens, at the hand of a madman, and several thousand more deaths at the hands of their liberators. Are the Iraqis permitted melancholy? Is a bittersweet taste not in their apple-pie deliverance? Lileks demonstrates with those words that in his mind, each of those American lives was worth a few hundred, or a few thousand, Iraqi lives. And when confronted with this observation, in his opinion, an Iraqi may not have outwardly say anything to an American other than "Thank you, Sir. My Mother died in a bombing for us all, Sir. My heart is full of joy." Sounds goddamn ...
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Eric blogs on which of the upcoming movies he wants to see. My list is far shorter:In AmericaShattered GlassAnyone else?...
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| 22:30:59 November 22, 2003, Saturday (PST) |
Source: Hasan's blog |
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For starters the openssl for Mac OSX Panther was compiled or released on my 23rd birthday: dfc@enoch:dfc$ uname -a Darwin enoch.local 7.0.0 Darwin Kernel Version 7.0.0: Wed Sep 24 15:48:39 PDT 2003; root:xnu/xnu-517.obj~1/RELEASE_PPC Power Macintosh powerpc dfc@enoch:dfc$ openssl version OpenSSL...
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Tom Butt reported tonight, "The city manager and the fire chief have published a memo that purports to explain why Fire Station 61 was selected for closure. According to analysis using a computer model, Fire Station 61 is the only...
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| 22:23:02 November 22, 2003, Saturday (PST) |
Source: My Point |
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Well... Just got done talking at SCALE. It just made me wish even more that I wasn't missing a day of the summit. Ah well, its important to respect your commitments, right? Felt isolated, didn't know anybody. Talk went well, I feel, though of course I was speaking on a pretty controversial topic (or at least my premise was controversial). *shrug* Anyway, it sucked to get off the plane, find no-one there (my bad, I stupidly assumed I would be met) pay for a shuttle to the convention center... Hang around not knowing anybody for 4 hours (on 4 hrs sleep, mind you), give a stressful talk wherein half the questions were either complaints about things I can't change or age-old annoying rants (some very good comments/questions too tho), and then watch everybody leave the expo and make my back to the airport alone....(actually, on the bus to the airport now ;-) oh, one thing positive that came out of this was I learned how invaluable having wireless internet connectivity is for getting ...
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| 22:23:00 November 22, 2003, Saturday (PST) |
Source: Design Fu |
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Reading technical texts while drinking Grand Marnier only works for a limited period of time. After awhile, the text describing cellular signal distortion sort of drifts into a fuzzy attenuation (oooh - techie metaphoric wordplay!). And what kind of idiot am I, that I read technical texts late on a Saturday night? Geez...
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OK, so I've been terribly impatient lately. I placed the pre-order for the Treo 600 on the 3rd and waiting...
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Find discounted items in the Baby Age clearance section for baby and Mom or Mom to be.
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I was eight years old when President Kennedy was assassinated. To be honest, I don't remember anything about it. (I have a much clearer memory of kneeling under my desk during the Cuban Missile crisis which happened almost a year...
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Japanese domains end in jp while Nepalese domains end in np. Right? Well, the story changed a bit. As of November 22, 2003, .np domains are available for individuals and organizations in Japan, as well. While .np is the official...
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| 21:10:20 November 22, 2003, Saturday (PST) |
Source: LaszloBlog |
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Japanese domains end in jp while Nepalese domains end in np. Right? Well, the story changed a bit. As of November 22, 2003, .np domains are available for individuals and organizations in Japan, as well. While .np is the official...
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| 21:10:20 November 22, 2003, Saturday (PST) |
Source: LaszloBlog |
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Of course..... it would be nice if the widgets I was looking for were present in the GTK/GNOME API. I guess I could have checked on that. It looks like the maturity of the WxWindows API is a big advantage here. Solid Grid controls are sadly lacking in the GTK/GNOME API.
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40 years ago today the world changed; at least the world as perceived by the 8 year old child I...
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| 21:00:00 November 22, 2003, Saturday (PST) |
Source: Tiny Boxes |
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There's a really excellent article at The Atlantic Online by William Langewiesche, "Columbia's Last Flight." Langewiesche follows the flight from beginning to end. He shows us not only what caused the tragedy, but how the Columbia Accident Investigation Board and...
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| 20:54:55 November 22, 2003, Saturday (PST) |
Source: I protest. |
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I haven't had one of these in a while, so here we go. The latest BlogSkins Featured Contributor is wah_biangz. wah_biangz has been a BlogSkins member for almost a year, and has contributed over 15 skins, most of which have more than four stars. Like most contributors, wah_biangz has gotten a little fed up with "bandwith stealers" but still contributes skins. So thank you, wah_biangz. And keep up the good work!
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Tomrrow is Friends and Family Day at Lane Bryant. Print out that coupon and get 25% off your entire purchase. That coupon is on the main site, so I guess you don't need to know someone who works there to...
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Saw a great game tonight -- Oilers versus the Canadiens in the so-called "Heritage Classic". Played outside in -20C weather, it was fast paced (on very fast ice), and a lot of fun to watch. And, the CBC broadcast in high definition. Hurray!
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A great selection of air purifiers, hepa vacuums, steam cleaners, hypoallergenic beds & bedding, dehumidifiers and much more for a healthy home. Free shipping on purchases of $150 or more!
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I dont know about you but if it were snowing and the roads were less than perfect and you had to go to work. would you not leave a few minutes earlier that usual? It is one thing to wake...
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Even with scoring no points in the first half, and Stanfurd having scored one field goal, and a touchdown in the first 5 minutes, and managing to fumble the ball, not one, not two, but 8 times, Cal still managed to win the game. That's right, we won 28-17. Cal...
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<img src="http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/blogs/static/knicholls/Img014.jpg" height="273" width="400" border="0" alt="kids dont float: ">
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