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 Thanks Jason for hearing my cry's!

Gas tax Holiday

A gas tax holiday isn't going to help anyone, so you save 18cents per gallon. out of what $4.05/gallon here in California? That money isn't going to be missed by the federal government it's going to be missed by the state governments, because its the money given to the states to maintain the highways. So the short fall is going to have to be made up from the state budgets. Which means cuts local programs or higher local taxes.   

 With Indonesia no longer exporting oil expect prices to continue to climb, start seeing other smaller producers start to hoard oil. The world has known this train was coming since the '70's and shouldn't be such a big shock. But, since no long term planning was done for this coming crisis, it's going to be a big shock. With the price of oil over $123/barrel, the price of everything is going to go up by way more then 18cents. Might as well collect the money and sink it into research a way out of the mess. 

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Your Dominant Intelligence

Your Dominant Intelligence is Logical-Mathematical Intelligence

You are great at finding patterns and relationships between things. Always curious about how things work, you love to set up experiments. You need for the world to make sense - and are good at making sense of it. You have a head for numbers and math ... and you can solve almost any logic puzzle. You would make a great scientist, engineer, computer programmer, researcher, accountant, or mathematician.

The Robot

John was a salesman's delight when it came to any kind of unusual gimmick.

His wife Marsha has long ago given up trying to get him to change.

One day, John came home about noon and told Marsha that he had gone to a
nearby city and purchased a Robot. It was no ordinary robot, but it was
in fact a Lie Detector. He said it had to charge 4 or 5 hours, and then he
would show her how it worked.

At 5:30 that afternoon, Tommy, their 11-year-old son, came in from
school, nearly 2 hours and 15 minutes late. Both parents were understandably
angry.

'Where have you been? Why are you over 2 hours late getting home?',
they asked.

'Several of us went to the library to work on an extra credit project,'
said Tommy.

The Robot walked around the table and slapped Tommy, knocking him
completely out of his chair.

'Son, this robot is a lie detector, now tell us where you went after
school.'

'We
went to Bobby's house and watched a movie.'

'What did you watch?', asked Marsha.

'The Ten Commandments.'

The Robot went around to Tommy and once again slapped him, knocking him
off his chair.

With lip quivering, Tommy got up, sat down and said, 'I am sorry I lied.
We really watched a tape called Sex Queen.'

'I'm ashamed of you Son,' said John. 'When I was your age, I never lied
to my parents, never tried to see dirty pictures much less dirty movies,
told dirty jokes, nor did I misbehave.'

The robot walked around to John and delivered a roundhouse right that
not only knocked him out of his chair, but out the back door and half way
across the patio.

When he came back inside, Marsha was bent double laughing, almost in
tears. 'Boy, did you ever ask for that one! And
you can't be too mad with
Tommy. After all, he is your son!'

The Robot immediately walked around to Marsha, and literally slapped the
shit out of her, not once, but three times.

The Wrong bitch

A battle weary American soldier boarded a crowded train in in London
during the early days of post-WWII, only to discover he was unable to
find a place to sit. As he walked the length of the train, he noticed a
small white dog curled up on one of the seats. A large, well dressed
woman sat in the seat next to the dog. The man hovered near the seat,
hoping the woman would take the hint, but she pointedly ignored him.

"Excuse me, Ma'am," the soldier finally spoke, "Is this your dog? Would you mind holding it on your lap so that I may sit down?"

The woman raised her icy gaze to the young man and said in a haughty British accent, "oh! You Americans. You are so rude.
Fluffy is in that seat, and i see no reason why she should give up her comfort for you."

The
exhausted soldier nodded, picked up the small dog ... leaned over ...
opened the window of the moving train and tossed the dog out. The woman
gaped and spluttered in horrified indignation, and the man sitting
across from her lowered his newspaper.

"You Americans", he said,
"You drive on the wrong side of the road ... you eat with the wrong
fork ... and you just threw the wrong bitch out the window."

infinite

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe."

by Albert Einstein

!0 biggest lies IT Consultants tell

1) "This can only be accomplished through a large custom development project."

2) "Of course your data is safe."

3) "We'll need a day or two for optimization and debugging."

4) "Yes, we've done this before. There are several companies using this product (or technology). They really like it."

5) "Server consolidation and virtualization will save you money."

6) "Storage consolidation and virtualization will save you money."

7) "The upgrade (or change) will be seamless and will not affect production."

8) "The upgrade (or change) will be transparent to users."

9) "Yes, we tested this thoroughly before installing it."

10) "If you install Tivoli it will solve all your support problems."

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You got to love Ozzy

• Crime: Defiling a National Monument


• While on tour in San Antonio, Texas, in 1982, renowned bat-biter, dove-muncher, and future reality TV patriarch Ozzy Osbourne found himself stuck in his hotel room without any clothes¿the result of a ploy by his new wife Sharon Osbourne to keep him from drunkenly wandering the streets and getting into trouble (as was his nightly M.O.). So the Oz Man, sufficiently sauced since noon, decided to don a nice new dress of his wife's and hit the town running! Or perhaps staggering...

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  • Before long nature called, and Ozzy found the nearest suitable structure on which to piddle: the Alamo. It's tough not to get caught defiling the largest continental state's most sacred establishment, and soon it was back in front of the mug shot camera for the real "Iron Man." Ozzy was immediately banned for life from showing his face in San Antone, and in response to such poor treatment he had 1,000 rolls of toilet paper printed with the American flag so he could wipe himself with Old Glory. Also since that awful day in history, the image of '666' has been slowly appearing on the exact area of the Alamo that was desecrated, a sign for most Texans that the Apocalypse is nigh.
  
  
  
  

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  • Update: OK, so the structure Ozzy peed on was actually the Cenotaph in front of the Alamo (which was a worse choice, in fact¿it's an "empty tomb" shrine dedicated to the fallen), so the '666' story might not be accurate. And Ozzy says he never printed the T.P., and in fact calls the incident one of his biggest regrets; he donated $10K to the Alamo's caretakers and was asked back to perform in the city in 1992. And police accounts say he wasn't even wearing the dress when apprehended. But other than that it's all true.
  
  
  
  

• YouTube Video: Ozzy on Letterman Two Months After the Alamo (Time: 7:34)


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Men and madness

Jumpgate Evolutions Video's

Slopey put some vid's from the Connect08. Compared to Jumpgate Classic Jumpgate Evolution is going to be easy to pick up. I guess developers have clued into the fact that if the game is too hard starting out very few people will stay and play. 

Caffenie is good for you

Caffenie is good for the brain. So all the coffee I drink is doing me good

a low power plasma light bulb

the future of street lights 

A few quotes in memory of Arthur C. Clarke

 A few quotes in memory of Arthur C. Clarke, who has stepped into the unknown today.

 

¶¿When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something
is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that
something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.¿

¶¿The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.¿

¶¿Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.¿

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