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Carpetbaggers= schemers, no good niks, profiteers, corrupt officials, etc.
One can't expect everything to be run smoothly after a disaster. Mistakes will be made by good intentioned people and policies. I don't have a problem with that. I do have a problem with black hearted people.
Tsunami
For charitable causes, I would like to see a Carpetbagger Zapper. Hate to be so cynical. We will all be reading or watching scandals reveled in 2005 associated with those who swarm to extract more blood.
I did participate in a Tsunami evacuation plan back in 1964 after the Great Alaskan Earthquake. Four of us fifteen year-olds where staying over at Clyde's house since his parents were out of town. We took our ladies (not our steadies) down to the beach for a bonfire and then retired back at Clyde's to watch the NCAA basketball tournament (if I remember right). TV reports were trickling in about the earthquake. All of a sudden, fire station sirens went off and the sheriff's cars were buzzing up and down the main road sounding the alarm. It wasn't long until hysterical mothers were out looking for their wayward sons. What a mess! The whole town made it up to Bunker Hill.
The tsunami on our beach turned out to be like a real high tide at the wrong time. One car was rolled over but there was no injuries. The same tsunami did quite a bit more damage down near Crescent City, Calif. Four campers were killed on the beach.
To this day, my mother still doesn't know Clyde's parents were out of town and we had girls over for an over night party. I don't know how my date, Whisky Lips, made it back to her parents vacation cabin.
We had a crude but timely and effective warning back in 1964!
Linda! Do you mean like this? Thanks.
ccriderless
I'm not a premium subscriber to this board so I have to attach my posts to someone else's.
Mail
Mail does a really good job sorting junk mail and putting it in the junk folder. My question is why email with someone else's name reaches me in the first place;abcsyz@comcast.net? It is true I have a comcast.net account but, abcsyx is not my email name!
Is it on Comcast's end where things are fouled? Do they put stuff in my mailbox that doesn't belong to me?
Different subject: Looking through by powerbook travel bag, I find a cord (dongle) which goes from regular USB to ethernet. What on earth would I use this for?
Annie: Here is where I buy my ink cartridges: http://4inkjets.com/
I saw several HP printers and printer/scanner combinations in COSTCO before Christmas with bluetooth built-in. I think one of them had six ink cartridges.
They say that bluetooth taps into the USB bus (is that redundant?) inside the computer. It should be as fast as USB.
Annie they have bluetooth to USB adapters for printers now. You plug them into the printer's USB port and the antennae talks to your iMac through bluetooth. The printer needs to be in reach of a wall outlet for power. One of my printers is 30ft. away in a separate room. Bluetake is the brand I bought but, I believe there are several others. I think HP even has one you can use with older units.
Well, it looks like poor old Herb covered his calls about 16 minutes early. aapl is now falling through the floor. Geeez, picking tops and bottoms is tough.
Annie: Did your iMac arrive? Do you like it?
I just bought Jan. 70 calls at 1.55 to cover the ones sold earlier in December. Made an even buck per contract for $500 overall.
Now, how to play the MacWorld run up?
Retail-CompUSA
iPods are showing up in all kinds of retail outlets. Is this an Apple doing or are iPods going through a distributer?
My nearest CompUSA does keep iPods up front in the small valuable stuff lock down area. All the accessories are in the Mac section in the far rear corner along with the stacks of boxes being opened for re-stocking.
At least, I'm able to buy some Apple equipment locally rather than mail order or go to a major city. The iPod mini I bought came from the local Good Guys Store while I did have to travel to CompUSA for the charging dock.
From what I've heard, this hasn't been such a robust season for the box electronic stores. Hopefully, Apple can make some inroads riding on the back of the iPod.
Safari works fine for me. Running my trading platform on it now. Well, I guess it really is Java / Safari.
Halo
I have no idea how much halo will come from iPod. I do perceive it is no longer 'bad' to buy Apple. We haven't heard in awhile schools or colleges insisting on WINTEL only because, "thats what you'll be using in the real world."
SPAM, spyware, and malware might have their own halo effect on Apple. So many people have been hit so hard by the above, that might push more switchers than anything.
It would be nice if Apple's CPU sales (upper end) would at least grow at the same rate as the industry. MacWorld rumors don't add much to CPU excitement. This show will be the year of the gadget.
OT: Spitsong
Washington state is a true blue state. Every vote counts. Even dead people get to count. Here's a good blog with information on how downtown Seattle voted.
http://soundpolitics.com/
CNBC picks Apple as stock of the day.
PJ gushes over stock.
Annie...
The important thing is you don't leave the house until it arrives. The delivery company might put one of 'those sorry we missed you please call us during normal business hours (Monday)' stickers on your door.
Until delivery, the global economy dictates your life.
Halo effect
Bought a charging dock for the iPod mini which is a Christmas gift. $40! 40 BUCKS! Could have bought a CD player for that.
Linda: Day after option expiration
You're right. I wonder if someone is making new bets for January.
I wonder what the big boys know that the rest of us don't. Seems to be a real correction going on in the beloved aapl; over $3 when you consider the daily high.
Cotton: I'm 60 cents in the money as I write. I need to close those calls out this week before the MacWorld hype takes over.
Constantly amazed how many Apple laptops I see out and about. They look so much nicer than the competitions'. Apple is over the hump when it comes to college campuses now that everything is WEB based or compatible with Microsoft Office X and when the WinX users are being devastated with virus and malware.
What do you do with the towers? Don't know. iMacs are fine for the present but, after you have migrated to LCD screens do you really want to keep buying monitors every three years?
Apple's computers languish next to iPod
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2002124770_btapple20.html
Christmas
Bought an iPod mini for my brother. Hope I'll be able to load it up with music (some from iTunes Music store) without iSyncing it with everything I have. I suppose once it's hooked to my computer it will be tethered their for life? Okay, I'll go read iPod Help.
StageCoach robberies
When AOL bought Time Warner, was that a stage coach robbery?
I can't remember if Blue Mountain received cash or stock. It must have been stock since @home wasn't profitable and was burning cash at the time. The important thing was 'eyeballs' .
fibait: Good to hear everything is happy happy in Colorado. When M Paquette brought up @Home and the three hippies, it gave me a chuckle remembering how they took @Home to the cleaners way back when. If you were there at the time watching, it was like a stage coach robbery. Their timing couldn't have been better; selling eyeballs.
My state is blue even on the national level and I didn't spend a red cent!
OT: Blue
I just don't like McCain.
Where I disagree with Rumsfeld stratagem is we should have occupied Iraq like Japan and Germany. In the long run, less lives will be loss. Mosques should not be safe havens for the bad guys.
The example that best comes to mind is actually from Afghanistan. Remember when our supposed allies were negotiating for the surrender of Omar who was surrounded in a particular compound? When the big bad guys are surrounded, take them down! Our friends (?) smuggled him out. Should have pulverized the whole compound.
OT: I'm officially anti McCain. He should switch parties.
Linda: Yes I'm still short aapl Jan. 70 calls. Yes, I'm getting a little nervous. My thinking was there would be a dip before Christmas and the usual Mac
World run up. Maybe, I should just buy the stock to cover at 68.
OT: m Paquette: "Made three hippies very, very wealthy..."
Never heard of Blue Mountain!
Sounds like you're shorting
Might be a good time to sell aapl July calls, no?
OT: Don't know about Ashcroft
All I know, is I personally have much more freedom than 30 years ago. America, it's a wonderful country!
Linda, I too would like a Bluetooth trackball for Christmas. The Logitech Marble wireless in a Bluetooth configuration will suit me fine. The above trackball works fine but, I would like to get rid of its USB antenna with cable.
Spastic Elastic: 32 vs. 64
Thanks for the explanation. You stated everything so even I could understand it.
Trade Deficit with China
Everyone is yakking at China to let their currency float. The yuan should be stronger than it now is. Milton Friedman would tell us the Chinese are taxing their people to sell us cheap goods. Not a bad thing.
G5 vs. G4
64 vs. 32
It is my impression that G5 and 64 bit words give you the ability to address more memory. Other than less disc writes, where is the speed advantage? Is the speed advantage only for programs that need or can use more than 2 gigs of memory?
Linda
Does the Bluetooth keyboard and mouse ship standard with the iMac? Or, did you special order?
OT: Spitsong-Seattle Shoreline
You did a great job with the documentation. Actually, I know all of this having taken the Seattle underground tour and seeing the thrones (toilets) twelve feet off the floor to get above the high tide mark.
My comment is some what tongue in cheek. I do know that Washington's shore line management act makes it impossible for me to build a bulkhead to protect my property. Even placing a bulkhead at the higher-high tide mark or storm tide mark is impossible. If my house slides into Puget Sound, well tough luck.
OT: Lango-Elwha river dam
My take is just get it done. This project has been going on for 20 years. It is now economically not worth while to maintain the dams and license for electricity generation. Blow them up!
The article takes a crack at dams on the Snake and Columbia which is a completely different situation. These not only generate electricity but are huge irrigation projects.
Left wing Seattle has a huge opportunity to restore saltwater habitat. The whole downtown water front could be restored to natural shoreline. Do they really need kite shops sitting on pilings? There is one pier being rebuilt for the first time since the 1920s. Its sole purpose is as a venue for a few summer out door concerts. Tear it down! Leave it down!
OT: Lango: here is an article on my past rant concerning removal of the Elwa dam.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/202731_focus12.html
2bStealthy: IBM computers and chips
The article you posted explained why PowerPC was a better choice for China but not why a Chinese company would buy IBM's computer division based on Intel chips.