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Hey guys...without looking, hit ctrl-v (or just right click and paste), and post the results. Let's see what you jatraqueros are really up to.....
Mine:
Economic Left/Right: -1.50 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -0.10
Er...lol. Ok so I guess the last thing I pasted was....on Hatrack. Posts: 1225 | Registered: Feb 2002
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I'm not surprised at all. I was really happy to see one of my favorite slogans as a test question. "From each according to his abilities. To each according to his needs."
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Ok... here it goes. This could be dangerous, I do work on govt projects.... I'll put it in quotes:
quote: Thanks. Wow…. Did those antibiotics not work? Might want to get a different kind. Sometimes they can put you on a steroid course too. Then you can be more like Arnold and beat up your brother. Oh wait… you might not need steroids for that… I’m very impatient for 4:00 to get here. I think I’ll head out then instead of waiting till 5:00. My laptop is back and seems to be working properly so I can finish up anything at home. I have really missed having my laptop. They restrict what all can be installed on the desktops at work so it was very limited. My laptop is under my complete control. So I can set up everything like I want! Sweet. Our church basketball team seems to be coming together very well. We don’t really have a coach so we’re sort of flying by the seat of our pants. I really think we need some order and instruction. I’d like to see a starting line up and more team work. But not sure that is going to happen. One of our new team members this ever is super tall. He dominates over all of us on the rebounds and I can’t wait to see him against another team! Fun! Hope you feel better soon. Drink more fluids!
Ahh.... an email reply. Cool. I put it into word before sending it out. Fun. Guess nothing to personal there that you can't read.
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quote:Now Hiring! Public relations specialists, managers, clerical staff, customer liaisons, and other key positions are available. Top benefits and salaries available to qualified candidates.
i was working on something, i think
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i think that's the best i've ever heard jim crank the guitar, that whole weekend. for sure, this ain't gonna happen again.
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quote:So how do you guys do it? One big folder? Meticulously organized into genres, artists, albums, release dates, album colors, when you bought them (the High Fidelity method), what?
Obviously from another Hatrack thread
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"Peter: I'll handle it, Lois. I read a book about this sort of thing once. Brian: Are you sure it was a book? Are you sure it wasn't nothing? Peter: Oh yeah." -Family Guy
"I don't suffer from insanity. I'm enjoying every moment of it." -My brother Josh.
"Mmmm...just thinking of delicious beer on tap makes my mouth water with vomit." -Me
I was bringing some quotes from my facebook profile to my pweb signature.
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Well...that will be fun. I'm kinda working right now, so the text will be in Portuguese, hehe.
quote: Morre jovem o que os Deuses amam, é um preceito da sabedoria antiga. E por certo a imaginação, que figura novos mundos, e a arte,que em obras os finge, são os sinais notáveis desse amor divino. Não concedem os Deuses esses dons para que sejamos felizes, senão para que sejamos seus pares. Quem ama, ama só a igual, porque o faz igual com amá-lo. Como porém o homem não pode ser igual dos Deuses, pois o Destino os separou, não corre homem nem se alteia deus pelo amor divino: estagna só deus fingido doente da sua ficção. [...] Mas para Sá-Carneiro, gênio não só da arte mas da inovação nela, juntou-se, à indiferença que circunda os gênios, o escárnio que persegue os inovadores, profetas, como Cassandra, de verdades que todos têm por mentira. In qua scribebat, barbara terra fuit. Mas, se a terra fora outra, não variara o destino. Hoje, mais que em outro tempo, qualquer privilégio é um castigo. Hoje, mais que nunca, se sofre a própria grandeza. [...] Decide supremo qualquer soldado bárbaro, que a guarda impôs imperador. Nada nasce de grande que não nasça maldito, nem cresce de nobre que se não definhe, crescendo. Se assim é, assim seja! Os Deuses o quiseram assim.
Barrier to entry Retailers are slow to accommodate patrons with disabilities.
By Catherine Hess JUST A FEW years ago, small retailers in San Francisco began noticing a disturbing trend. Plaintiff attorneys had started using federal and state disabled-access laws to make an easy buck off local merchants. They would go around looking for building-code violations, such as doorways that were too narrow or shopping aisles that were too close together. Then they would file suit and push for a quick settlement. For hundreds of small businesses that weren't prepared for all this, the consequences cost them thousands of dollars.
To confront this situation, a community coalition formed to protect shopkeepers from litigation while at the same time asserting that access to public spaces is a civil right. The San Francisco Collaborative, a partnership between the San Francisco Small Business Commission (SBC), the Small Business Network, and the Independent Living Resource Center San Francisco (ILRC), emerged in January 2003 to help businesses draw up plans for getting up to code.
Recognizing that such planning involves surveyors, architects, and contractors (i.e., lots of money), the collaborative raised about $100,000 with the help of a matching grant from the Public Entity Risk Institute. It also collected information about tax credits for access-related construction and spread the word through a massive outreach effort.
But to date, only a handful of small businesses has signed up for help from the collaborative. From a merchant's perspective, it could cost thousands of dollars to comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and Title XXIV of the California Building Code. For some, a grant from the collaborative would only bring down that cost, but it wouldn't eliminate it. Other small-business owners believe they might be able to get by if they can just wait for this wave of lawsuits to subside.
Scott Hauge, owner of Cal Insurance and Associates and founder of the collaborative, is quick to point out it's shortsighted to dismiss the lawsuits against small retailers. "The disabled community is pissed, and they have every right to be," he said. "Small business has to get their head out of the sand, and they have to try to address the concerns of the disabled community, or they're going to bring on more lawsuits."
Like Hauge, many see the lawsuits as an opportunity to drive home the message that providing access for disabled customers goes beyond simple altruism. When faced with the threat of settlements, lawyers' fees, court costs, and building renovation, it amounts to financial common sense. Litigation can be a lot more taxing on a small retailer's resources than the cost of getting up to code.
"We estimate that we contacted 1,500 businesses in one way or another," said Herb Levine, executive director of the ILRC. But he told us businesses didn't see ADA lawsuits as a real threat. In fact, Levine said he knows of two attorneys who were responsible for hundreds of lawsuits filed in the Bay Area and elsewhere.
On Jan. 7, Levine stood before the SBC to provide grim testimony: merchants in San Francisco don't want to make their businesses ADA-compliant. In fact, a report the collaborative presented to the SBC reads, in bold print, "Small businesses appear unwilling to act in the absence of a 'hammer' such as litigation or fines." The report also states that such reluctance seems financially motivated and that there's "very little overt negative feeling about people with disabilities."
"We came to these conclusions very reluctantly," Levine said. "Litigation results in more access than our attempt to collaborate."
Although Levine doesn't endorse litigation as a means to making businesses more disability-friendly, he stated that the collaborative will "stop casting aspersions on those that sue." That's a major change from his original belief that small businesses would be receptive to risk management and information about liability.
"If you are a small business, do you want the bad news from us or from an attorney?" Levine said. "[Attorneys] don't care if you go bankrupt from the settlement, and you're still liable for any changes."
The silver lining here: it's not too late for businesses to take advantage of funding to make shop space fully accessible. Interested merchants have until June 30 to apply for funding, which may cover all or part of the cost of an accessibility-needs survey and architectural plans to make changes. Business owners and consumers who want to report a noncompliant business can also contact the collaborative, via the ILRC, at (415) 543-6222 and at www.ilrcsf.org.Posts: 4344 | Registered: Mar 2003
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When the paramedics got to her they were asking her some questions, and one was "Do you know who the president is?" She replied, "yes, unfortunately!"
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LiveJournal Haiku! Your name: turnthepage Your haiku: disneyworld for next summer i wanna go so badly i need to
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Plankton: Haven't you figured it out, SpongeBob? Nice guys finish last. Only aggressive people conquer the world. Ha ha ha ha! SpongeBob SquarePants: Well... what about aggressively nice people?
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Desdemona's copying Billy Joel lyrics =) Took me a bit to figure out why I recognized those lines.
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I've never seen a treadmill that didn't have clothes hanging on it, except for in commercials. Have you?
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"the fourth log of phileas fogg (tales of grim and grandeur)"
lifting the book to his face and inhaling the heady aroma of old leather, dust, and adventure, he tucked the tome under his arm and turned toward the front of the bookshop, when.....
(we're writing a community story in another group, and I'm playing secretary. That was the most recent contribution.)
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