Elaine and I were listening to Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong on 'books on tape' on the way back from Worldcon and Loewen covered the influence of the Indian plagues in making way for the early European settlers.
A very depressing thing to listen to on a long trip.
Jack
I don't know what it is, but here's a picture of one
From Melissa Mead ::: (view all by) ::: July 21, 2006, 05:59 PM:
"There's no way to explain being poor to a wealthy person, because a wealthy person has never had the experience of being broke."
It can happen. I have relatives who went from broke to being richer than I'll ever be.
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I think that 'wealthy', by definition, implies never having been poor. There are many rich people who started out poor, but it will take another generation or two before their family moves into the wealthy category.
Robert;
Sometimes I wonder if these CEOs know what business they are in.
Seidenberg, at Verizon, said basically the same thing (January 05, 2006):
There's no such thing as a free lunch on the Internet, according to Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg, who said Thursday that providers of bandwith-intensive Internet applications, including Google and Microsoft, should "share the cost" of operating broadband networks.
They are getting paid for the use of their facilities, both by the user and the content provider. For what I am paying for broadband access to the internet, I don't see any free lunch.
The various internet service providers have Quality of Service gaurantees they are contractually obligated to meet. These QoS guarantees would apply to both to the content requestor (you) and the content providers. (Please make sure your QoS agreements don't allow for routing interference)
The Content providers are paying the ISP $XXX to have pipes that can transport the megabits or gigabits of data they are spewing into the 'net.
And the ISP will have QoS contractual agreements with all the other ISPs they connect to, to make the internet and to transport that spew to whoever requested it.
If the ISP isn't going to live up to its QoS promises, then I think they will be shortly driven out of business.
The problem will be if an ISP develops different QoS agreements based on where the content is coming from. If the ISP in a monopolistic position then the user's access to data can be compromised.
David Goldfarb said that he went to the WorldCon held in exactly the same place in 1996, and had a great time. Wasn't 1996 when LA held a NASFiC, but across the street from where the earlier worldcon was? (I think that was also the year of the big LA fire in the hills.) They did have a worldcon, in 1999 I think, and it was held at the same location as 1984's and this year's. Right?
The 1999 Worldcon was in Oz. I remember the plane filling with fans leaving the Nasfic to head to Melbourne.
Does it have to be Ivory? what about Dove? I bet that would expand into a bird.
Stefan, I don't know what sort of music your camper listens to, but if it is pop, http://80music.about.com/library/pop/bl_1980.htm can give you an idea of what was popular back then. Google for top 40 music 1980 and lots of stuff will appear, most of it irrelevant.
I picked up some Red Cross Winter Survival Kits for our cars several years ago. You never know when you will get caught out in a real blizzard here. Seems to happen once every four-five years.
The kit contain candles, matches, stove, cup, some dried food, a blanket. Just what you need if you get stuck in a snow bank overnight. It's small and it sits in the trunk, out the the way, along with a full set of replacement winter weather gear.
Maybe I should check out the food in the kits and replace it. It's probably getting old by now.
What about "Pentatookies"?
That should cover the gamut from Genesis to Deuteronomy...
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